When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

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Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

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In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

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If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

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Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

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