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The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Everything that is engenders, sooner or later, nightmares. Let us try, therefore, to invent something better than being.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
The farther men get from God, the farther they advance into the knowledge of religions.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
To have failed in everything, always, out of a love of discouragement.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
All my life, I have lived with the feeling that I have been kept from my true place. If the expression "metaphysical exile" had no meaning, my existence alone would afford it one.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
God is what survives the evidence that nothing deserves to be thought.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
In relation to any act of life, the mind acts as a killjoy.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
The unfortunate thing about public misfortunes is that everyone regards himself as qualified to talk about them.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Fear is the antidote to boredom: the remedy must be stronger than the disease.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Nothing deserves to be undone, doubtless because nothing deserved to be done.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
To have committed every crime but that of being a father.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)