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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
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Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
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What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!
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Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.
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A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.
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This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.
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Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
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I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.
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Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
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Under each formula lies a corpse.
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That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
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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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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
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Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
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The universal view melts things into a blur.
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Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.
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There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.
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To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
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