No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

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Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

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In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

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Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

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Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

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A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

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What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

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