# Quote — Colin Wilson, The Outsider

> The Diary of Vaslav Nijinjsky reaches a limit of sincerity beyond any of the documents that we have referred to on this study. There are other modern works that express the same sense that civilized life is a form of living death; notably the poetry of T. S. Eliot and the novels of Franz Kafka; but there is an element of prophetic denunciation in both, the attitude of healthy men rebuking their sick neighbors. We possess no other record of the Outsider's problems that was written by a man about to be defeated and permanently smashed by those problems.

- Author: [Colin Wilson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/colin-wilson.md)
- Book: [The Outsider](https://www.leafyquotes.com/colin-wilson/the-outsider.md)
- Page: 115
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## More from this book

> There is in Shaw, as in Gurdjieff and Nietzsche, a recognition of the immense effort of Will that is necessary to express even a little freedom, that places them beside Pascal and St. Augustine as religious thinkers. Their view is saved from pessimism only by its mystical recognition of the possibilities of pure Will, freed from the entanglements of automatism.

p. 292 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/colin-wilson/the-outsider/there-is-in-shaw.md)

> Cézanne's painting is strictly painting, and its value is immense; but Van Gogh's painting has the Outsider's characteristic: it is a laboratory refuse of a man who treated his own life as an experiment in living; it faithfully records moods and developments of vision on the manner of a Bildungsroman.

p. 103 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/colin-wilson/the-outsider/cezannes-painting-is-strictly.md)

> The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

p. 231 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/colin-wilson/the-outsider/the-exploration-of-oneself.md)