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I don't hide my profession of pessimism and I'm an avowed partisan of reaction.
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Most of us live betwixt quiet despair and furious nihilism.
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The educated reader knows, as he reads me, that he is listening to a fugue in four voices.
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The more I grow older, the more the Gnosis speaks to my reason, the world isn't ruled by a Providence, it's intrisically evil, deeply absurd, and Creation is the dream of a blind intellect or a game of a principle without a moral.
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French, German, English and Spanish are four admirable languages and I manage to express myself in all of them with more or less skill.
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Great heed has to be taken about the fact that most of us desire to remain unconscious: felicity (in eyes of common man) is rapture and rapture seems a quenching of awareness reduced to the awareness of its obliteration... Sex and Religion are centred on it both and I dare say that their convenience will in future be to join instead of rivalling, as they are wont to do, obscenity will be religious as it was long ago.
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Our moral ideas are not transcendent, our moral ideas are historical and History obeys to changing Aions, we feel that ours is fading and no authority can enforce confidence rooted in what no power includes : in Sensibility itself. To every Aion a new Sensibility adheres and to each Sensibility another Aion is related, sin is nowhere, we only see abuse and worst among abuses, the delusion of sin as such.
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I would be pleased indeed, if the universe were full of blazing ovens, and concentration camps, and people deported.
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I was born to myself between 1946 and 1948, I then opened my eyes on the world, until that moment I have been blind
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I spent the first ten years of my life in Germany, the following ten in Paris, the following ten between Argentine and Uruguay.
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In every saint there lurks an arrant knave, the marrow of all holyness being absolute hellishness. That is why our Saviours are of no awail, their remedies being too strong for common man, who is the puppet of his fleshly appetite and not a sinner.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Albert Caraco
Born:
July 8, 1919
Died:
September 7, 1971
(aged 52)
Bio:
Albert Caraco was a French-Uruguayan philosopher, writer, essayist and poet of Turkish Jewish descent. He is known for his two major works, Post Mortem and posthumously published Bréviaire du chaos.
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