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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
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Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
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I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
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Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.
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The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
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It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.
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For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
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Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
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Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
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