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Why is it the most difficult to throw? Because it is the only one without a model. When

The underground appeared in this novel as the failure and reversal of Christianity.

The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.

The peoples of the world do not invent their gods. They deify their victims.

In myth, violent death is always justified.

If the Gospels were mythical themselves, they could not provide the knowledge that demythologizes mythology.

Our concern for victims is the secular mask of Christian love.

Our unending discords are the ransom of our freedom.

Victimism uses the ideology of concern for victims to gain political or economic or spiritual power.

It is the Other whom one must love as oneself if one does not desire to idolize and hate the Other in the depths of the underground.

The world's myths do not reveal a way to interpret the Gospels, but exactly the reverse: the Gospels reveal to us the way to interpret myth.

Where the successful or failed dialogues between Christianity and other cultures are concerned, we could go on for hours.

Imitation is human intelligence in its most dynamic aspect.

He thought against Napoleon, in both senses of the word. See how fruitful resentment can be, and how it can make one

Silence is the only conduct truly befitting a solipsist, the only one, however, that he cannot bring himself to adopt.

The essence of desire is to have no essential goal. Truly to desire, we must have recourse to people about us; we have to desire their desires.

Instead of reorganizing the demoniac, rearranging it a bit, like a psychoanalyst, you do away with it entirely.