"I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress."
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"Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty."
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"There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for."
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"Every rebellion implies some kind of unity."
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"So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories."
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"Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love."
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"The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL."
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"... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die."
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"There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it."
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"Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
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"I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness."
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"You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal."
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"Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth-with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishioners and has heard a man gasping for breath on his deathbed thinks as I do. He'd try to relieve human suffering before trying to point out its goodness."
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"Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched."
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"Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably."
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"Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim."
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"In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time."
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"The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism."
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"but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand"
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"I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine"
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