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Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
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The more you live, the less useful it seems to have lived.
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The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.
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I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.
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Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
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A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.
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We are all geniuses when we dream.
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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
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After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.
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To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
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The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
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A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society.
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If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.