"Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated."
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"Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself."
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"There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time."
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"When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy."
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"We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy."
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"Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything."
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"We are condemned to live together."
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"The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand."
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"But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction."
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"Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it."
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"I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me."
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"Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven."
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"The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent"
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"A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted."
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"What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again."
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"Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone."
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"Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man."
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"Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original."
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"One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity."
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"I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else."
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