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We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.