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“Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action.”
― The Temptation to Exist
― The Temptation to Exist
“What a swarm of the pseudo-”delivered” stares down at us from the pinnacle of their salvation! Their conscience is clear—do they not claim to locate themselves above their actions? An intolerable swindle.”
― The Temptation to Exist
― The Temptation to Exist
“The sphere of consciousness shrinks in action; no one who acts can lay claim to the universal, for to act is to cling to the properties of being at the expense of being itself, to a form of reality to reality’s detriment.”
― The Temptation to Exist
― The Temptation to Exist
“For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.”
― The Temptation to Exist
― The Temptation to Exist
“At best, we conceive happiness; never felicity, prerogative of civilizations based on the idea of salvation, on the refusal to savor one’s sufferings, to revel in them; but, sybarites of suffering, scions of a masochistic tradition, which of us would hesitate between the Benares sermon and Baudelaire’s Heautontimoroumenos? I am both wound and knife”—that is our absolute, our eternity.”
― The Temptation to Exist
― The Temptation to Exist
