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b. 1919 France
Albert Caraco (8 July 1919 – 7 September 1971) was a French-Uruguayan philosopher, writer, essayist and poet of Turkish Jewish descent. He is best known for his two major works, Post Mortem (1968) and posthumously published Bréviaire du chaos (1982).
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It's because life itself is inhuman that men are not human.
I would be pleased indeed, if the universe were full of blazing ovens, and concentration camps, and people deported.
Evil desires men to multiply, for the more men there are, the less they are worth. To be truly human, man will never be rare enough.
Bréviaire du chaos (1982)
The educated reader knows, as he reads me, that he is listening to a fugue in four voices.
French, German, English and Spanish are four admirable languages and I manage to express myself in all of them with more or less skill.
We are too many to live, but never enough to suffer and die.
Most of us live betwixt quiet despair and furious nihilism.
Ma confession (1975)
Death is not terrible, life is terrible, but we see things literally and figuratively upside down. The philosopher is the one who puts everything back in its proper place.
If the fornicators sin, those who impregnate sin a hundred times more.
My entire existence is a methodical "NO”.
I don't hide my profession of pessimism and I'm an avowed partisan of reaction.
Pessimism has never been in fashion because no order could stand it; it's a luxury of the mind, and thus beyond the reach of the common man.
Who are the most wicked of men? It's the optimists.
Happiness rarely leads us to intellectual adventures. Writers and artists, not to mention philosophers, are usually dissatisfied with themselves or the world.
Ma confession (1975)
For me, nothingness has a charm that the abortions that populate this place could never have and never will have. I thank heaven that I live here; leaving this world doesn't take any effort.
I spent the first ten years of my life in Germany, the following ten in Paris, the following ten between Argentine and Uruguay.
I was born to myself between 1946 and 1948, I then opened my eyes on the world, until that moment I have been blind.
Ma confession (1975)
I am a racist and a colonialist.
Ma confession (1975)
Life is no longer sacred from the moment the living become too numerous. The lives of surplus men are no more valuable than those of insects, and soldiers killed in war are no different in the eyes of those who command them.
Bréviaire du chaos (1982)
In every saint there lurks an arrant knave, the marrow of all holiness being absolute hellishness. That's why our Saviors are of no avail, their remedies being too strong for the common man, who is the puppet of his fleshly appetite and not a sinner.
Ma confession (1975)