Re: a toothache: "One moans; but these are not straightforward moans, they are crafty moans, and the craftiness is the whole point."
"But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void."
"Man loves creating and the making of roads, that is indisputable. But why does he so passionately love destruction and chaos as well? Can it be that he has such a love of destruction and chaos because he is instinctively afraid of achieving the goal and completing the edifice he is creating? How do you know, maybe he likes the edifice only from from far, and by no means up close; maybe he only likes creating it, and not living in it."
"...With consciousness, though the result comes out the same--that is, again there's nothing to do--at least one can occasionally whip oneself, and, after all, that lives things up a bit. It may be retrograde, but still it's better than nothing."
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