Erect I make a resolution; prone I revoke it. [47]
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In the future, if humanity is to begin again, it will do so with its failures, with the Mongols of the entire globe, with the dregs of the continents; a parody civilization will appear which those who produced the real one will observe quite impotent, ashamed, prostrate, in order to take refuge, ultimately, in an idiocy where they will forget the glamour of their disasters. [67]
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No one should try to live if he has not completed his training as a victim. [80]
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I have so fondled the notion of fatality, nourished it at the cost of such great sacrifices, that it has finally made itself incarnate: once an abstraction, here it is, palpitating before me and crushing me with all the life I have given it. [90]
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Had Noah possessed the gift of foreseeing the future, there is not a doubt in the world he would have scuttled the ark. [121]
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To make our way from the caves to the salons required a considerable amount of time; will we take as long to cover the path back or will we take shortcuts? [127]