

“Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;”
― The Antichrist
― The Antichrist

“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

“What would happen if a man's face could adequately express his suffering, if his entire inner agony would be objectified in his facial expression? Could we still communicate? Wouldn't we then cover our faces with our hands while talking? Life would really be impossible if the infinitude of feelings we harbor within ourselves would be fully expressed in the lines of our face. Nobody would dare look at himself in the mirror, because a grotesque, tragic image would mix in the contours of his face with stains and traces of blood, wounds which cannot be healed, and unstoppable streams of tears. I would experience a kind of voluptuous awe if I could see a volcano of blood, eruptions as red as fire and as burning as despair, burst into the comfortable and superficial harmony of everyday life, or if I could see all our hidden wounds open, making of us a bloody eruption forever. Only then would be truly understand and appreciate the advantages of loneliness, which silences our suffering and makes it inaccessible. The venom drawn out from suffering would be enough to poison the whole world in a bloody eruption, bursting out of the volcano of our being. There is so much venom, so much poison, in suffering!”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair

“I would like to be free, totaly free... free like an aborted child.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair

“At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
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