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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

Let me go to hell, that’s all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.