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“You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“Perhaps I am no one.
True, I have a body
and I cannot escape from it.
I would like to fly out of my head,
but that is out of the question.”
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True, I have a body
and I cannot escape from it.
I would like to fly out of my head,
but that is out of the question.”
―
“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
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“I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
Existentialism
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