"A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words."
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"Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence."
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"L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free."
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"The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him."
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"Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings."
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"When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings."
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"it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else."
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"If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action."
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"I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest."
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"The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two."
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"Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?"
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"He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end."
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"There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving."
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"Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers."
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"I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail."
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"Existence is an imperfection."
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"Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty."
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"Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him."
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"The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist."
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"Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding."
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