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Word - that invisible dagger.
Under each formula lies a corpse.
Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
We inhabit a language rather than a country.
The Universal view melts things into a blur.
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.
We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.
We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.