"Life gave me everything I asked If all I asked was not a great deal, that's my problem!"
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"Two people can form a community by excluding a third."
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"Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins."
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"What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat, the alienation of man, I am astonished that they do not color all our literature."
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"So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people."
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"We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God."
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"Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end."
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"Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself."
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"Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates."
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"I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'."
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"Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait."
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"Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough."
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"It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall."
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"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."
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"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."
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"It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die."
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"Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm."
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"Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is."
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"This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality."
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"You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle."
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