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It Is Through An "intimate Cessation Of All Intellectual Operations" That The Mind Is Laid Bare. If Nor, Discourse Maintains It In Its Little Complacency. ... The Difference Between Inner Experience And Philosophy Resides Principally In This: That In Experience, ... What Counts Is No Longer The Statement Of Wind, But The Wind.

Crime Is A Fact Of The Human Species, A Fact Of That Species Alone, But It Is Above All The Secret Aspect, Impenetrable And Hidden. Crime Hides, And By Far The Most Terrifying Things Are Those Which Elude Us.

To Others, The Universe Seems Decent Because Decent People Have Welded Eyes. That Is Why They Fear Lewdness. They Are Never Frightened By The Crowing Of A Rooster Or When Strolling Under A Starry Heaven. In General, People Savor The "pleasures Of The Flesh" Only On The Condition That They May Be Insipid.

You Perhaps Now Know That Desire Reduces Us To Pulp.

I Think That Knowledge Enslaves Us, That At The Base Of All Knowledge There Is A Servility, The Acceptation Of A Way Of Life Wherein Each Moment Has Meaning Only In Relation To Another Or Others That Will Follow It.