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Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
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An existence transfigured by failure.
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No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
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Man is a robot with defects.
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Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.
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A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.
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Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
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As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.
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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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What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
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Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.
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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
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If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
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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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Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
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Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?
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There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
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Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
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Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
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