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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
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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.
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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
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In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
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Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
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Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
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The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
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Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
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