Quote #135

I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.

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  1. Characteristic of sickness: to stay awake when everything sleeps, when everything is at rest, even the sick man.
  2. To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
  3. When you know quite absolutely that everything is unreal, you then cannot see why you should take the trouble to prove it.
  4. What are you waiting for in order to give up?
  5. It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
  6. No one is responsible for what he is nor even for what he does. This is obvious and everyone more or less agrees that it is so. Then why ce…
  7. The feeling of being the thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end of humanity...
  8. There is no limit to suffering.

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