Normal people have nothing to forget.
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow winded upon the fetid air.
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.
The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.
To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.
There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.
You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.
Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.
What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
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.
The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.
Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
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