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The sort of misery that brings no moral reward, misery that is of no value to the mind and soul, that is the true misery, it is hopeless, bestial and nothing else.

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Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

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The self knowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.

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How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.

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The renunciation of recognition will never become possible without a certitude that our life is directed by a suprahuman authority.

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It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.

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