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"I dont hide my profession of pessimism and Im an avowed partisan of reaction."
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Albert Caraco
Albert Caraco was a French-Uruguayan philosopher, writer, essayist and poet of Turkish Jewish descent. He is known for his two major works, Post Mortem (1968) and posthumously published Bréviaire du chaos (1982). He is often compared to the philosophers and writers such as Emil Cioran, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Nicolás Gómez Dávila and Friedrich Nietzsche.
"I dont hide my profession of pessimism and Im an avowed partisan of reaction."
"In every saint there lurks an arrant knave, the marrow of all holiness being absolute hellishness. Thats why our Saviors are of no avail, their remedies being too strong for the common man, who is the puppet of his fleshly appetite and not a sinner."
"I spent the first ten years of my life in Germany, the following ten in Paris, the following ten between Argentine and Uruguay."
"We are too many to live, but never enough to suffer and die."
"We are all guilty of existing; Gnosis admits that life is a burden and that the salvation of the species lies in chastity, resulting in universal extinction. Jesus — the real Jesus, not the one of the Catholic Church — expressed a similar sentiment when, as some fragments of the Apocryphal Gospels show, he wished that life would cease in order for misery to end, and that he praised a woman named Salome for being sterile, declaring to her that he came for destroying the opera of the women. These are a couple of rational statements that every reasonable man should adopt, but since the majority is neither reasonable nor sensible, new abortions will be raised in misery, shame, disease, and filth."
"My entire existence is a methodical "NO”."
"Death is not terrible, life is terrible, but we see things literally and figuratively upside down. The philosopher is the one who puts everything back in its proper place."
"If the fornicators sin, those who impregnate sin a hundred times more."
"Pessimism has never been in fashion because no order could stand it; its a luxury of the mind, and thus beyond the reach of the common man."
"Every child believes in its parents: that seems to be the first mistake, for they are usually not gods but ordinary people, and a child will never reach manhood unless it sees through this deception. The free man must be unfaithful to his roots; otherwise, he becomes a servant."
"Who are the most wicked of men? Its the optimists."
"I would be pleased indeed, if the universe were full of blazing ovens, concentration camps, and people deported."