"Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities."
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"We are all special cases."
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"Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd"
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"It's better to bet on this life than on the next."
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"If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason."
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"Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all."
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"Morality, when formal, devours."
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"For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still."
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"Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves."
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"I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys."
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"History only exists, in the final analysis, for God."
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"I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere."
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"There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it."
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"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."
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"I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires."
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"There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it."
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"Murder is terribly exhausting."
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"In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul"
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"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
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"…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth."
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