

“For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.”
― The Temptation to Exist
― The Temptation to Exist

“I’ve never practiced a profession and have lived like a sort of student. I consider this my greatest success, my life hasn’t been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing.”
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“To tell the truth, I couldn't care less about the relativity of knowledge, simply because the world does not deserve to be known.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair

“I have never taken myself for a being. A non-citizen, a marginal type, a nothing who exists only by the excess, by the superabundance of his nothingness.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born

“Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action.”
― The Temptation to Exist
― The Temptation to Exist
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