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Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
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I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.
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To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.
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When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.
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In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
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What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
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I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.
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