"The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown."
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"The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature."
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"To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living."
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"You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence."
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"To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end."
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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 godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade."
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"There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart."
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"There is no frontier between being and appearing."
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"He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way."
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"The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance."
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"It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end."
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"Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable."
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"One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood."
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"...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future."
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"Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means."
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"Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable."
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"Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
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"Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting."
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"A loveless world is a dead world."
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"Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth."
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