"I have changed as everyone changes: within a permanency."
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"I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just."
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"What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there."
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"Hell is for other people."
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"Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?"
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"Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love—or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories."
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"I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee."
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"The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being."
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"You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them."
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"Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed."
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"All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?"
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"I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with its eyes, I heard with its ears, but it was no longer me; it sweated and trembled by itself and I didn’t recognize it any more."
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"A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution."
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"I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death."
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"Existence is prior to essence."
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"It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves."
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"You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely."
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"Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all."
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"I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!"
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"The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not."
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