"There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence."
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"Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom."
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"A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future."
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"An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be."
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"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."
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"Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals."
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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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"We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed."
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"Integrity has no need of rules."
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"Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us."
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"Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are."
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"Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never."
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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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"I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist."
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"One cannot be a part-time nihilist."
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"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."
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"It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist."
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"One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice."
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"If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art."
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"Integrity needs no rules."
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