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- Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.
- I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
- Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
- By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
- Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
- Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
- By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow…
- If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I…
- All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.
- All philosophers should end their days at Pythia’s feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.
- If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.
- Pursued by our origins…we all are.
- It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other
- Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.
- I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.
- Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
- Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual…
- Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
- Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and…
- I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance…
- We are all geniuses when we dream.
- Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all…
- The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
- How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.
- After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle