No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
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Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens nothing is more public than the sexual act.
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When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.
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The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.
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