

“This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this, and I do not. Everything is unique—and insignificant.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born

“If I used to ask myself, over a coffin: “What good did it do the occupant to be born?”, I now put the same question about anyone alive.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born

“I would like to be free, totaly free... free like an aborted child.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair

“Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on.
Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.”
― The Trouble With Being Born

“I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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