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“I rebel; therefore I exist.”
― Albert Camus

“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
― Albert Camus

“The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.”
― Albert Camus

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“We are our memory,
we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,
that pile of broken mirrors.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, In Praise of Darkness

“What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country … we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits … this is why we should not say that we travel for pleasure. There is no pleasure in traveling, and I look upon it more as an occasion for spiritual testing … Pleasure takes us away from ourselves in the same way as distraction, in Pascal’s use of the word, takes us away from God. Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951

“This is the beginning and the end of the world right here. Look at those patient Buddhas lookin at us saying nothing.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Do you recognize perhaps, also you, now, that a minute ago you were another?”
― Luigi Pirandello, Uno, nessuno, e centomila

“And no one realizes we should all, always, look like that, each with his eyes full of horror at his own, inescapable solitude.”
― Luigi Pirandello, One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

“Have you ever thought to go away and never come back? Run away and lose your tracks, to go to a place far away and start living again, living a new life, only yours, really live? Did you ever think?”
― Luigi Pirandello

“أشعر أنني منفصل تماما عن كل البلدان وعن كل المجموعات. أنا متشرد
ميتافيزيقي

I feel completely detached from any country, any group.
I am a metaphysically displaced person”
― Emil Cioran

“Tell me how you want to die, and I’ll tell you who you are.”
― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints

“I would like to be free, totaly free... free like an aborted child.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.”
― Emil Cioran