"It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell."
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"Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away."
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"She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound."
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"To eat is to appropriate by destruction."
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"Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]."
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"Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it."
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"What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space."
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"Existence precedes and rules essence."
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"In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary."
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"I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be."
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"Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself"
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"But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it, it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits in the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel."
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"What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power."
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"L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion."
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"Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith."
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"I considered calmly that I was born to write."
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"A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom."
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"Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity."
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"I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied."
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"Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence."
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