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One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

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I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

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One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

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It is only in our decisions that we are important.

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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

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I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

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Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

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It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

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Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

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Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

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Life begins on the other side of despair.

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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

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The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

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I hate victims who respect their executioners.

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The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

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