If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

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Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.

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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

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The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

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God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

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