

“None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-being disappear and are transformed into omens of destruction. The luxury liner becomes a battleship, or the black jolly roger and the red executioner’s flag are hoisted on it.”
― The Forest Passage
― The Forest Passage

“The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I ‘ultimately’ do not take seriously. This increases my freedom; I serve as a temporary volunteer”
― Eumeswil
― Eumeswil

“Chance is the modern word for Holy Spirit.”
― The Woman Who Was Poor
― The Woman Who Was Poor

“And it is because you don't know the end and purpose of things that you think the wicked and the criminal have power and happiness.”
― The Consolation of Philosophy
― The Consolation of Philosophy
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