The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
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At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time having a purpos...
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant an...
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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest...
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Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.
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It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical.
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One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should ha...
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Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without k...
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A hell, from which one can be saved by a quibble that would carry no weight with a police magistrate, cannot be taken very seriously.
