"Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely."
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"In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land."
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"A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them."
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"Without work all life goes rotten."
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"Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?"
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"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
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"Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way."
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"Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it."
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"The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge."
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"In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture."
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"Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place."
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"Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all."
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"What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves."
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"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
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"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books."
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"Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it."
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"To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style."
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"Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful"
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"Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road."
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"There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it."
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