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The Book of Disquiet
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Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one.
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Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.
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Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.
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Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.
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Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.
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I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I've seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as 'flesh and blood'. In fact, 'flesh and blood' describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher's marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive.
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Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
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I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
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The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.
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We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.
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Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
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My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.
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We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.
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I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.
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What, I believe, produces in me the deep feeling, in which I live, of incongruity with others, is that most think with sensitivity, while I feel with thought.
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There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.
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It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
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Out of a few misunderstandings with reality we construct beliefs and hopes, and we live on these crusts, which we call bread, just like poor children who play at being happy.
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Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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Born:
June 13, 1888
Died:
November 30, 1935
(aged 47)
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