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I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
We always love . . . despite; and that "despite" covers an infinity.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
To hope is to contradict the future.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Not content with real sufferings, the anxious man imposes imaginary ones on himself; he is a being for whom unreality exists, must exist; otherwise where would he obtain the ration of torment his nature demands?
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
"Where do you get those superior airs of yours?" "I've managed to survive, you see, all those nights when I wondered: am I going to kill myself at dawn?"
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Only the idiot is equipped to breathe.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Only optimists commit suicide, the optimists who can no longer be . . . optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why should they have any to die?
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
We suffer: the external world begins to exist . . . ; we suffer to excess: it vanishes. Pain instigates the world only to unmask its unreality.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Whether or not there exists a solution to problems troubles only a minority; that the emotions have no outcome, lead to nothing, vanish into themselves — that is the great unconscious drama, the affective insolubility everyone suffers without even thinking about it.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)