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“I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
“Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.”
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“To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.”
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“Some people are like an open grave:
You give it the thing you love most
And then get nothing in return.”
― Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
You give it the thing you love most
And then get nothing in return.”
― Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
“As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
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