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Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.
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Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
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I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.
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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 defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell
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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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Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.
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Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
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Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
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The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.
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To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
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Normal people have nothing to forget.
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The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule he offers himself.
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Pursued by our origins... we all are.
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The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
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Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
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Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
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Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
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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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