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- To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
- What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?
- No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity;––for thoughts, there is always time; life…
- Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?
- Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical…
- To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself…
- I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person
- To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
- I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without…
- I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I…
- We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their…
- Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to…
- 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…
- We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.
- No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have…
- When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, “What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like.…
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