"There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for."
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"There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night."
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"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."
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"Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders."
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"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."
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"Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from."
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"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."
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"The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself."
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"The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding."
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"You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself."
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"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."
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"We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."
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"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it."
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"Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth."
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"Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement."
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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 as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is."
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"The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind."
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"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
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"If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there."
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"I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man."
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