Albert Caraco

“I would be pleased indeed, if the universe were full of blazing ovens, and concentration camps, and people deported.”

“I don't hide my profession of pessimism and I'm an avowed partisan of reaction.”

“French, German, English and Spanish are four admirable languages and I manage to express myself in all of them with more or less skill.”

“According to Gnosis, the universe is the prison of the species and is virtually embraced by fate, which is reminiscent of Sartre despite all the differences in expression. We enter the world through a gate that requires no explanation: we are the outcasts of women. We emerge from the womb and are thrust into something we didn't choose, which is essentially Heidegger's concept of thrownness. Our mothers cast us into the world, and we awaken as prisoners. When our eyes open, we find ourselves in chains. Our existence is like Plato's cave, where we perceive only the shadows of things.”

“It's because life itself is inhuman that men are not human.”

“If I had to live my life over again, I wouldn't change a thing. I fully approve of what I've done, and I'm immensely proud of myself. It's life itself that I despise, not my existence; it's the principle, not its application, that couldn't have been better, given the circumstances.”

“For me, nothingness has a charm that the abortions that populate this place could never have and never will have. I thank heaven that I live here; leaving this world doesn't take any effort.”

“Who are the most wicked of men? It's the optimists.”

“My entire existence is a methodical "NO”.”

“I would be pleased indeed, if the universe were full of blazing ovens, concentration camps, and people deported.”

“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.”

“Pessimism has never been in fashion because no order could stand it; it's a luxury of the mind, and thus beyond the reach of the common man.”

“The fact that we suffer doesn't necessarily imply that pain is meaningful; quite the contrary! It's always pointless to endure pain, but our vanity refuses to admit it, and therefore builds castles in the air to amuse itself with illusions, which is also called metaphysics.”

“If the fornicators sin, those who impregnate sin a hundred times more.”

“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.”

“We are too many to live, but never enough to suffer and die.”

“I spent the first ten years of my life in Germany, the following ten in Paris, the following ten between Argentine and Uruguay.”