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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

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Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

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We are all special cases.

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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

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We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

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The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

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