"None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself."
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"Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear."
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"Art does not tolerate reason."
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"The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves."
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"I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't."
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"It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle."
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"Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience."
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"To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge."
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"The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it."
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"A work of art is a confession."
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"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."
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"But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man."
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"Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live."
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"I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me."
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"I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue."
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"I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable."
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"Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing."
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"Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny."
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"There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy."
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"My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love."
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