The Trouble with Being Born
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“I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person”
“Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.”
“I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.”
“Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.”
Source: A short history of decay
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.”
Source: A short history of decay
Source: A short history of decay
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.”
“Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.”
“No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief”
“A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.”
Source: The fall into time
“The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.”
“Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.”
Source: A short history of decay
Source: A short history of decay
“Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.”
“I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
“You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms