"His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything."
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"This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator."
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"Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices."
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"Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right."
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"Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn’t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face."
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"I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than."
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"It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed."
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"Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert."
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"Suffering gives us no special rights."
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"No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession."
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"You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy."
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"Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today."
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"The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it."
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"What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man."
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"Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them."
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"May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!"
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"A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic."
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"Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'"
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"I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world."
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"From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes."
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