Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.
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Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.
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The past is the luxury of proprietors.
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The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.
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It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my king. I wanted for order to rule and that it rule through me. I have lived without desire, without love, without hope: I made order. Oh! Terrible and divine passion!
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Man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world, and defines himself afterwards.
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Man is all the time outside of himself: it is in projecting and losing himself beyond himself that he makes man to exist; and, on the other hand, it is by pursuing transcendent aims that he himself is able to exist. Since man is thus self-surpassing, and can grasp objects only in relation to his self-surpassing, he is himself the heart and center of his transcendence. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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Quietism is the attitude of people who say: "let others do what I cannot do." The doctrine I am presenting before you is precisely the opposite of this, since it declares that there is no reality except in action.
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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
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