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"Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated."
"I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered."
"But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow."
"In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them."
"...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered."
"You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that."
"Am well. Thinking of you always. Love"
"There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence."
"That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means."
"... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending."
"The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity."
"No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture."
"He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man."
"I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one"
"The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war."
"Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love."
"The absurd is sin without God."
"The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action."
"False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones."
"La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object."