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There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.
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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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To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.
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What do you do from morning to night? I endure myself.
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The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
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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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I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
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An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.
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What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!
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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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A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
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If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.
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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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True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.
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One does not inhabit a country one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
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To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell
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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
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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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Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
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Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
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