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- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
- Itself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
- Madness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
- Echo
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
- Ennui
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
- Fling
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- Nov 07, 2020
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
- Enormity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Universal view melts things into a blur.
- Except
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
- Delight
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
- Extinguished
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
- Glory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
- Oppressor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
- Distant
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- Nov 07, 2020
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
- Ruling
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- Nov 07, 2020
One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
- Necessary
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
- Envy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
- Petty
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
We inhabit a language rather than a country.
- Greater
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- Nov 07, 2020
The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.
- Nov 07, 2020
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
- Invisible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Word - that invisible dagger.
- Each
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under each formula lies a corpse.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
- Diminution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
- Pure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
- Despair
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- Nov 07, 2020
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020