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To know that happiness cannot come from anything outside, and that all things that come into being have to pass away: this is right understanding, the beginning of wisdom.
“O, if only, instead of being a hell, the universe had been an immense celestial anus!”
― Les Chants de Maldoror
― Les Chants de Maldoror
“It is not easy to bring about the death of the entire race of men, and the law is there; but one may, with patience, exterminate the human ants one by one.”
― Les Chants de Maldoror
― Les Chants de Maldoror
“Fear arises from desire, yet it passes away by itself. Generate fortitude and look at it with indifference.210”
― A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
― A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
“My nates offer everlastingly the lugubrious spectacle of tumescence; no one can claim (and how many have drawn near!) that he has seen them in a state of normal quiescence, not even the shoe shine boy who attacked me with a knife during a moment of delirium. Ungrateful wretch!”
― Les Chants de Maldoror
― Les Chants de Maldoror
“that feeling of wonderful stupefaction from which one generally seeks to protect those who pass their time reading books or magazines, I have made every effort to produce.”
― Les Chants de Maldoror
― Les Chants de Maldoror
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