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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all...
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with...
The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the...
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the...
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect,...
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly...
Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
Source: La Somme Ath?ologique, vol....
Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else -- an animal's incomplete compared to a person. . . and a person...
At man's core there's a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot...
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate...
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in...
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means...
Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
Source: The Notion...
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of...