"You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us"
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"The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to."
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"The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other."
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"If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living."
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"If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers."
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"A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment."
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"They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives."
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"I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints."
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"Ironic philosophies produce passionate works."
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"Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature."
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"Men cry because things are not what they ought to be."
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"I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored"
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"“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”"
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"Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation."
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"In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe."
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"For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace."
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"What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?"
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"The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners."
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"A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images."
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"I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl."
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