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"All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world."
"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."
"It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time."
"how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!"
"Existence is illusory and it is eternal."
"What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension."
"... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God."
"Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me."
"Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics."
"The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless."
"life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so."
"I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die."
"I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure."
"It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting."
"There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born."
"The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death."
"For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation."
"So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time."
"At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively little; or, rather, that love is never strong enough to find the words befitting it. Thus he and his mother would always love each other silently. And one day she--or he--would die, without ever, all their lives long, having gone farther than this by way of making their affection known."
"I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself."