"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door."
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"There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man."
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"I rebel; therefore I exist."
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"There is scarcely any passion without struggle."
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"There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined."
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"Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question."
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"To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love."
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"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."
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"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman."
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"At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things."
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"Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority."
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"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
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"But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't."
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"The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily."
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"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
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"There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds."
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"I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."
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"In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again."
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"Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil."
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"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."
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