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This book delves into the complexities of human existence, examining the challenges and paradoxes of being born into the world.
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“I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.”
“We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.”
“We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.”
“We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.”
“We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!”
“To have committed every crime but that of being a father.”
“What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.”
“There was a time when time did not yet exist.”
“What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?”
“Our first intuitions are the true ones.”
“If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.”
“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
“Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.”
“A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.”
“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”
“The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.”
“Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.”
“He who hates himself is not humble.”
“I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.”
“What are you waiting for in order to give up?”
“The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.”
“One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.”
“I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.”