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- One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that we fool ourselves…
- All beginnings are involuntary.
- Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
- We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the…
- Myth is the nothing that is all.
- I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let…
- A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the hands too cold…
- All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust…
- The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I…
- Let's develop theories patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them - acting and justifying our actions with new theories…
- I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my…
- The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue…
- I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
- The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so…
- I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown,…
- We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of…
- To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the same thing we…
- In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from…
- What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys…
- My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing…
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