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A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has...  
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary,...  
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.   Dreams
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't...  
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise,...  
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.  
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becom...  
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also ...  
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.  
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.  
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superf...  
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is ...  
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also th...  
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is ...  
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it...  
The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle ab...  
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of...  
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same tim...  
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every languag...  
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He...  
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no ...  
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him ...