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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
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However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.
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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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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
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the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.
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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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Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.
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If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
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By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
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I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.
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Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
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An existence transfigured by failure.
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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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All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?
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Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.
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In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.
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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
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Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
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