Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

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His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

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But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

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There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

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For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

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In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.

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Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

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