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“Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.”
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“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.”
― The Waste Books
― The Waste Books
“…the association of two, or more, apparently alien elements on a plane alien to both is the most potent ignition of poetry.”
― Maldoror and the Complete Works
― Maldoror and the Complete Works
“To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.”
― History and Utopia
― History and Utopia
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