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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us ba...  
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the b...   Dreams
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the fle...  
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others bu...  
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all ...  
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.  
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been...  
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in m...  
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill ...  
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perfo...  
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.  
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a beli...  
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if ther...  
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our c...  
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its p...  
Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shameless...  
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with on...  
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the ...  
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts...  
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neithe...  
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.  
To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth...  
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.  
We derive our vitality from our store of madness.  
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us hi...  
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but st...