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"I dont hide my profession of pessimism and Im an avowed partisan of reaction."
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Albert Caraco"We, who are not satisfied with empty words, consent to disappear, and we rejoice in our fate. We didnt choose to be born, and consider ourselves fortunate to have nowhere to outlive this life, which was imposed upon us rather than given — a life full of sorrows and pains with dubious or harmful pleasures."
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."
"I would be pleased indeed, if the universe were full of blazing ovens, concentration camps, and people deported."