"My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces."
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"A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?"
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"What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed."
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"In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment."
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"The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point."
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"In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting."
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"Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness."
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"Finally, and most of all, words failed him."
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"The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer."
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"In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death."
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"... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger."
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"Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance."
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"Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?"
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"The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them."
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"I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me."
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"For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering"
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"The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part."
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"Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."
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"The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression."
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"In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone."
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