"And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution."
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"The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom."
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"When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man."
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"All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics-\-\-in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion."
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"I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be."
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"Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a' admirer que de choses a' me priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise."
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"The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it"
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"One grows out of pity when it's useless."
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"It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear."
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"In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman."
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"Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence"
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"There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse."
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"I was absent at the moment I took up the most space."
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"Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself."
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"At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it."
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"Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object."
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"After awhile you could get used to anything."
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"We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink."
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"She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her."
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"For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie."
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