“ I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. ”
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“ If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar dissolving into the strange, and ourselves wit it. It never dispossesses us entirely, for the words, the images (once dissolved) are charged with emotions already experienced, attached to objects which link them to the known. ”
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“ Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader. ”
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“ TO WHOM LIFE IS AN EXPERIENCE TO BE CARRIED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE... I have not meant to express my thought but to help you clarify what you yourself think... You are not any more different from me than your right leg is from your left, but what joins us is THE SLEEP OF REASON—WHICH PRODUCES MONSTERS. —Theory of Religion ”
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“ I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it. ”
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“ At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear… when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed… ”
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“ The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. ”
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“ Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. ”
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“ The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. ”
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“ Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled, not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. ”
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“ Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. ”
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“ Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else — an animal's incomplete compared to a person… and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary. ”
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“ Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. ”
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“ Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. ”
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“ The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. ”
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“ I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. ”
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“ The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. ”
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“ Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ”
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“ At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear… when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed… ”
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“ Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else — an animal's incomplete compared to a person… and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary. ”
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“ The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. ”
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“ I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. ”
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“ I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. ”
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“ Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ”
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“ Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. ”
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“ The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. ”
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