"Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")"
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"For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too."
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"There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value."
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"We have to live and let live in order to create what we are."
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"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."
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"I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive."
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"Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day."
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"Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future."
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"No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing."
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"There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor."
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"Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers."
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"To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck."
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"Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law."
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"In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon."
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"All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football."
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"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."
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"Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening."
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"For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men."
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"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities."
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"Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky."
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