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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

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There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism eith...

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What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in...

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To be honest, I knew that there was no difference between dying at their years old and dying at seventy because, naturally, in both cases, oth...

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The truth is that every intelligent man, as you well know, dreams of being a gangster and ruling over society through violence alone. Since th...

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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom ...

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She noted that marriage is a very serious thing. I answered that no, it is not.... She just wanted to know if I would have accepted the same p...

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Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others to kneel, that...

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People do not become convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity or of the seriousness of your pain until you are dead.

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Oh! Caesonia, I knew men could despair, but I did not know what that word meant. I thought like, everyone else, that it was an ailment of the ...

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Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.

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Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.

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Listen to me, imbecile. If the Treasury is important, then human life is not. This is clear. All those who think like you ought to admit this ...

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Living, Caesonia, is the opposite of loving.

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Losing life is a trifle and I will have that courage when I need it. But to see the meaning of this life vanishing, our reason for existing di...

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Men die and they are not happy.

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it—just as the world reproduces itself in the cours...

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In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

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In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

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I, who am speaking to you, if I had had the chance to choose my father, I would not have been born.

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I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, ...

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I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which on...

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I laugh when I think that all of Rome made it a point not to pronounce Drusilla's name. Because Rome was mistaken for all those years. Love is...

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I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

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I asked her if she wanted to go to the movies that night. She laughed again and told me that she felt like seeing a Fernandel movie. When we g...

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Helicon: 'It takes one day to make a senator and ten years to make a worker.' Caligula: 'But I am afraid that it takes twenty years to ma...

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Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master w...

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He is asleep. He knows no longer the fatigue of the work of deciding, the work to finish. He sleeps, he has no longer to strain, to force hims...

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