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Under each formula lies a corpse.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

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The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

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

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

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.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

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