Quotes
Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.
The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of expansion and rage within origins, to the tendency to the worst which first shook them up.
If consciousness is, as some inhuman thinker has said, nothing more than a flash of light between two eternities of darkness, then there is nothing more execrable than existence.
The Perversity of the Universe Tends Toward a Maximum.
p. 23
The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.
p. 142
He was suddenly struck by an idea so brilliant that he was quite sure it could not possibly work.
p. 166
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