"If the world were clear, art would not exist."
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"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
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"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
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"People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves."
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"One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
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"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
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"If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance."
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"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself."
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"She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart."
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"And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world."
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"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."
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"Where there is no hope, we must invent it."
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"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants."
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"Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things."
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"What is a rebel? A man who says no."
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"Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves."
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"Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood--never!"
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"True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person."
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"On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers, and this, always, is what the heart needs. The earth must have risen in just such a light the morning the world was born."
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"The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx."
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