"I don't know. Everything. Living. Smoking."
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"I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones."
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"I know only one Church: it is the society of men."
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"Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change."
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"I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God."
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"Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man."
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"A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour."
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"The past is the luxury of proprietors."
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"Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets."
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"Aegistheus, the kings have another secret.... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men and to them alone to let him flee or to destroy him."
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"The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe."
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"Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing."
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"Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it."
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"This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it."
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"The way, applicable in our non-revolutionary societies, to prepare for the time when everyone will read, is to pose problems in the most radical and intransigent manner. This is what Alain Badiou has just done in Almagestes, where he puts language on trial with an intention of cleansing, of catharsis."
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"[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair."
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"I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie."
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"I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists."
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"The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not."
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"With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed."
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