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A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.
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Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.
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We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.
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To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.
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The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.
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Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.
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Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.
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Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.
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Reality is a creation of our excesses.
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Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.
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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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The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.
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I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.
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In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
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To hope is to contradict the future.
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To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell
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Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.
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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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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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Normal people have nothing to forget.
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