"As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos."
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"When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there."
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"We live in an old chaos of the sun."
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"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning."
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"Joy, once lost, is pain"
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"Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time."
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"A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control."
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"On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth."
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"There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos."
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"Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue."
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"Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent."
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"All this happened, more or less."
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"We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses."
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"Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos."
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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting."
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"Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience."
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"I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos."
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"The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often"
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"Catastrophe and creation are twins."
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"He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone."
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