I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

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We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

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A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

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Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

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A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

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The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

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We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

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Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

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