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Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
From The Book of Delusions
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By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
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Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
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To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.
From History and Utopia
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Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
From The Trouble With Being Born
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Nu pot fi eu insumi decat daca ma inalt pana la furie sau cobor pana la descurajare: la nivelul meu obisnuit, ignor faptul ca exist.
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In numele si sub teroarea ei (plictiselii, n.m.) parasesc oamenii caminul si moartea agreabila legata de el si se avanta in lume, spre a muri undeva fara acoperis si fara lacrimi; adolescentii se gandesc la sinucideri in zile infinite de primavara, iar servitoarele fara amanti se lamenteaza duminicile, de parca inima lor e un cimitir in care mortii nu pot dormi.
From Tears and Saints
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The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
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As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad . . .
From A Short History of Decay
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As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
From Tears and Saints
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one.
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Criticism is a misconception.
We must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with a taste for maladies and hunger for depravities. One only troubles oneself with saints because one has been disappointed by the paradoxes of earthly life; one therefore searches out other paradoxes, more outlandish in guise, redolent of unknown truths, unknown perfumes...
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Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
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Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
From The Book of Delusions
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By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
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Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
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To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.
From History and Utopia
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Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
From The Trouble With Being Born
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Nu pot fi eu insumi decat daca ma inalt pana la furie sau cobor pana la descurajare: la nivelul meu obisnuit, ignor faptul ca exist.
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In numele si sub teroarea ei (plictiselii, n.m.) parasesc oamenii caminul si moartea agreabila legata de el si se avanta in lume, spre a muri undeva fara acoperis si fara lacrimi; adolescentii se gandesc la sinucideri in zile infinite de primavara, iar servitoarele fara amanti se lamenteaza duminicile, de parca inima lor e un cimitir in care mortii nu pot dormi.
From Tears and Saints
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The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
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As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad . . .
From A Short History of Decay
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As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
From Tears and Saints
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one.
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Criticism is a misconception.
We must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with a taste for maladies and hunger for depravities. One only troubles oneself with saints because one has been disappointed by the paradoxes of earthly life; one therefore searches out other paradoxes, more outlandish in guise, redolent of unknown truths, unknown perfumes...
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Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
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Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
From The Book of Delusions
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By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
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Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
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To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.
From History and Utopia
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Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
From The Trouble With Being Born
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Nu pot fi eu insumi decat daca ma inalt pana la furie sau cobor pana la descurajare: la nivelul meu obisnuit, ignor faptul ca exist.
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In numele si sub teroarea ei (plictiselii, n.m.) parasesc oamenii caminul si moartea agreabila legata de el si se avanta in lume, spre a muri undeva fara acoperis si fara lacrimi; adolescentii se gandesc la sinucideri in zile infinite de primavara, iar servitoarele fara amanti se lamenteaza duminicile, de parca inima lor e un cimitir in care mortii nu pot dormi.
From Tears and Saints
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The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
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As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad . . .
From A Short History of Decay
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As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
From Tears and Saints
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one.
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Criticism is a misconception.
We must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with a taste for maladies and hunger for depravities. One only troubles oneself with saints because one has been disappointed by the paradoxes of earthly life; one therefore searches out other paradoxes, more outlandish in guise, redolent of unknown truths, unknown perfumes...
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Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
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