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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.


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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.



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A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.



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It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.



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