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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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What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

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Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

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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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There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

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In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

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The Universal view melts things into a blur.

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We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

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Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

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We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

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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 mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

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What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

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It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.

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Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

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Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

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I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

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We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

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Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

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So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

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A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

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To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

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By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

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We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

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No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

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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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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

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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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Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

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