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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

"Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die."

"In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep."
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"Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail."

"Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death."

"Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs."
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