"Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history."
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"But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The seas, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death--these are things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all. Striving towards realism is therefore legitimate, for it is basically related to the artistic adventure."
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"Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian."
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"Give up the tyranny of female charm."
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"Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering."
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"We're all special cases."
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"Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire."
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"Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it."
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"Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world."
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"Without freedom there is no art."
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"Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended."
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"Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide."
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"[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!"
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"Everybody knows life isn't worth living."
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"Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky."
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"Don't let them tell us stories."
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"At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century."
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"Liberty is dangerous."
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"In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average."
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"Empires and churches are born under the sun of death."
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