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"Eroticism is assenting to life even in death."
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"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."
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"The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility."

"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison."

"To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them."

"Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love."

"Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary."

"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 moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing."

"The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives."
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