"If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light."
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"The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best."
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"I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar."
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"It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it."
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"The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it."
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"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."
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"Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave."
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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
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"In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team."
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"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."
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"When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die."
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"I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity."
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"There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse."
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"I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me."
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"If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner."
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"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth."
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"To choose not to choose is still to act."
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"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
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"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."
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"The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions … and without resignation either. He stares at death with passionate attention and this fascination liberates him. He experiences the “divine irresponsibility” of the condemned man."
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