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For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.
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In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
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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 history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
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I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
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There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
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Time is heavy sometimes imagine how heavy eternity must be.
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Reality is a creation of our excesses.
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All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.
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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
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Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
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What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.
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To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.
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Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
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Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
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The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
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I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
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To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
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Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.
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