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Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
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Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
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Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
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God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
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Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
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We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
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What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
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