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Thanks to depression — that alpinism of the indolent — we scale every summit and daydream over every precipice from our bed.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
In our fear, we are victims of an aggression of the Future.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Death poses a problem which replaces all the others. What is deadly to philosophy, to the naive belief in the hierarchy of perplexities.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
In the torments of the intellect, there is a certain bearing which is to be sought in vain among those of the heart. Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Incredible that the prospect of having a biographer has made no one renounce having a life.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
On the frontiers of the self: "What I have suffered, what I am suffering, no one will ever know, not even I."
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
No longer ask me for my program: isn't breathing one?
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Erect I make a resolution; prone I revoke it.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Without God, everything is nothingness; and with God? Supreme nothingness.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Sooner or later, each desire must encounter its lassitude: its truth . . .
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
You have dreamed of setting the world ablaze, and you have not even managed to communicate your fire to words, to light up a single one!
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
The lover who kills himself for a girl has an experience which is more complete and much more profound than the hero who overturns the world.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Awareness of time: assault on time . . .
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide . . .
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
"I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside." This remark of a mental patient weighs more heavily than a whole stack of works on introspection.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
The Creation was the first act of sabotage.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)