"Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved."
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"An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement."
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"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."
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"After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent."
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"We have art in order not to die of life."
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"All healthy men have thought of their own suicide"
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"This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world."
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"I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold."
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"Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress."
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"I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it."
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"In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly."
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
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"We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges."
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"A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists."
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"What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic."
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"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."
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"One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it."
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"You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself."
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"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."
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"Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes."
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