"Contradiction is the essence of the universe."
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"To be understood is to prostitute oneself"
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"If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts."
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"There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything."
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"For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as if I'd done something new, or done it late. I'm beginning to be conscious of being conscious. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up to myself and resume the course of my existence. I don't know if that will make more happy or less. I don't know anything."
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"Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many."
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"I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally."
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"The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day."
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"Myth is the nothing that is all."
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"I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties."
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"To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent."
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"Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul."
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"I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body."
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"God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky."
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"I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city."
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"Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it."
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"Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!"
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"What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them."
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"This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right."
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"I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness."
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