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The positions of the planets do not determine my personality; my position determines the personality of the planets.
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Someone whose job is to look after children all day in a daycare—how do they endure all that noise?
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I tried every possible way to free myself from my native language, because for me it has become synonymous with vulgarity, noise, and bigotry.
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If I go to a psychologist or psychiatrist, what happens? The answer is simple: they will try to change me, to pull me back into society.
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Growing up in emotional security blinds a person to the corruption of society.
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A teacher is essentially an “assimilator,” because teaching requires the student’s education, and education means reducing and forcing them into molds, the molds of others.
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There is no “good school” because that would be like saying “good hell.”
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Sometimes I’m afraid to look at people’s faces. It’s not a social fear but an ontological one.
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Cleaning the kitchen feels harder to me than creating a thousand-page philosophical masterpiece.
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Trying to sow reason and thought into civilization is like trying to grow a plant in concrete.
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I am completely dependent on my inner world. If it were to leave me, if it were to break apart and disappear as well, what would I do?
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Rhetoric feels comic to me because I perceive this heavy fixation on human language as a kind of confinement.
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As long as people expect change from political parties, nothing will change.
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My main concern is not with the masses, but with the frame in which the masses are trapped. And that, entirely, is in my hands.
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If it is assumed that my camouflage is my personality, then the camouflage is working.
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While writing, I never imagine a reader, because I write not for anyone else, but solely for myself.
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I turn my texts into universes closed in on themselves in order to refute critique at the place where it stands before it even reaches me.
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I think about things so many times, over and over, that even the most serious and solemn ones turn into ridiculous comedies.
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People are not consumed by constant rumination in silence. Instead, they are driven by a more primal madness—a frantic need to be with others, much like an animal reacting to isolation.
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Things that drive others mad or even lead them into fights feel like “tiny noises” to me.
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Specific individuals rarely provoke emotional reactions in me because I do not see an individual at all.
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Even if the body’s conditions change, the mind’s characteristics do not necessarily change.
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My way of showing love is to grant the person reality, to make them someone who exists; after all, people are unreal by default to me.
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If someone opposes me, I do not internalize it; it simply passes by. But if no one opposes me, I get bored; there must always be something I can defy and neutralize.
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While the two main physical spaces that ease suffocating thoughts are hospital corridors and cemetery paths, the only true place is the inner world.
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When I left my family, the first freedom I felt was the freedom to commit suicide.
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You don’t need to design plans to get people off your back. It’s enough to just honestly say what’s on your mind.
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In a country ruled by a people who struggle from morning to night just to keep their stomachs full, thought does not develop, because there is not even time to think.
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The truth of a statement lies in how specifically it addresses a group.
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Even when people tell me, “You are very rude,” what they are referring to is not my personality or my worldview, but the “repulsiveness of my style.”
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The person I have now turned into has seen many wars.
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I am under no obligation to do anything—neither to be “kind” nor to show “respect.”
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Even people who call themselves “social critics” are trapped in what I see as “cultural assimilation."
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Society is gaseous; the unawakened are liquid; the awakened are solid. Those who remain water will always evaporate into the air; those who are diamonds will always remain themselves.
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I have not suffered from the complete absence of meaning but from its extreme scarcity, which in turn magnified even the smallest experiences.
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It is not the dead but the perfect that does not change, because it has no need to.
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The ignorant fail to detect the ignorance of other ignorant people.
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The greatest pain is not the pain that cannot be endured but the pain one does not want or is unable to want to endure.
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If one pays enough attention and possesses a strong capacity for observation, it is actually possible to sense which category a person belongs to merely by looking at their appearance.
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One who is his or her own god has no need to borrow a god from outside.
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