Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
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We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
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The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
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