Albert Caraco quotes

Albert Caraco was a French writer and philosopher of Uruguayan-Jewish descent, known for his dark and pessimistic worldview. His works explored themes such as nihilism, religion, and the absurdity of existence. He remains an influential figure in 20th-century existential and philosophical literature. Here are 13 of his quotes:

I was born to myself between 1946 and 1948, I then opened my eyes on the world, until that moment I have been blind. (Albert Caraco)
I am a racist and a colonialist. View quote
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Most of us live betwixt quiet despair and furious nihilism. View quote
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French, German, English and Spanish are four admirable languages and I manage to express myself in all of them with more or less skill. View quote
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In every saint there lurks an arrant knave, the marrow of all holyness being absolute hellishness. That is why our Saviours are of no awail, their remedies being too strong for common man, who is the puppet of his fleshly appetite and not a sinner. View quote
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Great heed has to be taken about the fact that most of us desire to remain unconscious: felicity (in eyes of common man) is rapture and rapture seems a quenching of awareness reduced to the awareness of its obliteration... Sex and Religion are centred on it both and I dare say that their convenience will in future be to join instead of rivalling, as they are wont to do, obscenity will be religious as it was long ago. View quote
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I spent the first ten years of my life in Germany, the following ten in Paris, the following ten between Argentine and Uruguay. View quote
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I would be pleased indeed, if the universe were full of blazing ovens, and concentration camps, and people deported. View quote
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Our most terrifying fears and our innermost secret desires for extermination are reflected in this elegant and profound book, without any sort of leniency to attenuate the disgust and hopelessness we feel when faced with a humanity constantly atrophied by a series of values and practices that lead to chaos. View quote
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The educated reader knows, as he reads me, that he is listening to a fugue in four voices. View quote
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Our moral ideas are not transcendent, our moral ideas are historical and History obeys to changing Aions, we feel that ours is fading and no authority can enforce confidence rooted in what no power includes : in Sensibility itself. To every Aion a new Sensibility adheres and to each Sensibility another Aion is related, sin is nowhere, we only see abuse and worst among abuses, the delusion of sin as such. (Albert Caraco)
The more I grow older, the more the Gnosis speaks to my reason, the world isn't ruled by a Providence, it's intrisically evil, deeply absurd, and Creation is the dream of a blind intellect or a game of a principle without a moral. View quote
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I don't hide my profession of pessimism and I'm an avowed partisan of reaction. View quote
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