"God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease."
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"People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments."
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"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."
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"How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong."
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"We rarely confide in those who are better than we are."
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"We all have a weakness for beauty."
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"The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression."
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"Youth is above all a collection of possibilities."
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"One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves."
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"Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire."
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"To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation."
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"Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses."
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"You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries."
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"With rebellion, awareness is born"
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"I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things."
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"The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass."
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"I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently."
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"I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion."
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"Happiness too is inevitable."
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"I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy. The miracle of not having to talk about oneself."
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