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Everyone Tarrou set eyes on had that vacant gaze, and was visibly suffering from the complete break with all that life had meant to him. And s...
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For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory gods that a man,...
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D'Arrast: 'Just tell me, has your good Jesus always answered your call?' The Rooster: 'Always, no, Captain.'...
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Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
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But [Jonas] quickly understood that a disciple was not necessarily someone who wishes to learn something. More often, on the contrary, one bec...
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After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother, but it is n...
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All I want is the moon, Helicon. I know in advance what will kill me. I have not yet exhausted all that can make me live. That is why I want t...
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All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
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... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.
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[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthen...
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[The boss] asked me if I was not interested in a change in my life. I answered that one can never change lives, that in any case all lives wer...
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... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is dif...
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'Have you no hope at all? Do you really think that when you die you die outright, and nothing remains?' I said: 'Yes.'
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. Work
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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
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Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.
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A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
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The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.
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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest--whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories--comes afterward. These are games; one must first answer.
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More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
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Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is. Religion
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
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