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“To attain the satisfactions of the mystic state without having to endure its rigours; to be the ecstatic follower of no god, the mystic or epopt* with no initiation; to pass the days meditating on a paradise you don’t believe in – all of this tastes good to the soul that knows what it means to know nothing.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“I feel death pinching me by the throat, or pulling me by the back.”
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“Life has become the ideology of its own absence.”
― Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
― Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.”
― The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990
― The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990
“The only responsible course is to deny oneself the ideological misuse of one’s own existence, and for the rest to conduct oneself in private as modestly, unobtrusively and unpretentiously as is required, no longer by good upbringing, but by the shame of still having air to breathe, in hell.”
― Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
― Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
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