"I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race."
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"And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe."
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"We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight."
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"What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support."
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"Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves."
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"Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics."
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"Every ideology is contrary to human psychology."
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"What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions 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. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity."
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"In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence."
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"They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose."
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"More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other."
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"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."
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"To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage."
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"Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without."
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"When there is no hope, one must invent hope."
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"The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us."
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"We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself."
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"In order to exist, man must rebel."
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"The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs."
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"The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy."
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