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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the m...more

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The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

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At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time having a purpos...more

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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develo...more

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

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Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest...more

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Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.

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In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with his or her inborn idiosyncrasies...more

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It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical.