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One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

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Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
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We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.
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No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary... Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes.
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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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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
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One does not inhabit a country one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
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Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
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Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.
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Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
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