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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
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In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
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When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
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God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
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We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
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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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Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
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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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The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
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One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?
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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
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Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
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Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
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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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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand 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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Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
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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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A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
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