If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.
How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
He who hates himself is not humble.
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
Try to be free: you will die of hunger.
Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.
Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."
We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.
Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.
There was a time when time did not yet exist.
How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.
To hope is to contradict the future.
I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.
I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person
Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
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