“I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity. Yet in a less assured mood, birth seems a calamity I would be miserable not having known.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“Only those are happy who never think or, rather, who only think about life's bare necessities, and to think about such things means not to think at all. True thinking resembles a demon who muddies the spring of life or a sickness which corrupts its roots. To think all the time, to raise questions, to doubt your own destiny, to feel the weariness of living, to be worn out to the point of exhaustion by thoughts and life, to leave behind you, as symbols of your life's drama, a trail of smoke and blood - all this means you are so unhappy that reflection and thinking appear as a curse causing a violent revulsion in you.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
“The feeling of being ten thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end of humanity …”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”
― All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms
― All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms
“Tears do not burn except in solitude.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
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