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• It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think
• Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
• The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish…
• Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
• You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
• When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great…
• As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then,…
• It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it…
• It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.
• Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything…
• Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
• The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

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