Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough. |
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. |
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety ; refuge among anemic ideas. |
Pursued by our origins... we all are. |
Reality is a creation of our excesses. |
Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness. |
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. |
Russia - immensity and suffocation. |
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. |
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. |
So long as man is protected by madness-he functions-and flourishes. |
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it. |
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. |
Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have. |
The "west" - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end? |