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You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
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Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
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Word - that invisible dagger.
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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
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What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
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What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
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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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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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We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
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We inhabit a language rather than a country.
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We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
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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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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
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We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
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We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
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We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
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Under each formula lies a corpse.
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Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
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To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
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To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
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There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
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The Universal view melts things into a blur.
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The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
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The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
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