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The Book of Disquiet
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I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. [...] Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
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It's certain that, when hearing from any of those people the story of their sexual marathons, a vague suspicion pervades us, at about the seventh deflowering.
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We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.
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All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.
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Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity.
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Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
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I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
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Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
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If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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They were two and beautiful and wanted to be something else; love delayed itself to them in the tedium of the future, and regret of what would happen to be was already being the daughter of the love they hadn't had.
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Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.
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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
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The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.
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The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
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Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
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I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been.
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The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.
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Being pleased with what they give you is proper of slaves. Asking for more is proper of children. Conquering more is proper of fools.
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For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.
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Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.
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Born:
June 13, 1888
Died:
November 30, 1935
(aged 47)
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