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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
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Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
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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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There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
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Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
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No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
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In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
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Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
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My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
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I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
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What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
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