"A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil."
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"Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected."
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"If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically."
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"[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood. Critics have been mistaken about the meaning of this phrase, seeing in it a cry of despair as in Simone de Beauvoir's "I have been cheated." When she uses this word it is to indicate that she claims from life an absolute which she cannot find there."
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"We make our own hell out of the people around us."
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"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."
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"When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness."
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"What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me."
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"I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing."
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"If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic."
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"Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out."
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"You are -- your life, and nothing else."
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"I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of out time - the time of purple suspenders, and broken chair seats; it is made of white, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain. No sooner than born, it is already old, it seems as though I have known it for twenty years."
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"The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle."
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"Life begins on the other side of despair."
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"Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think."
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"Words are loaded pistols."
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"I confused things with their names: that is belief."
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"Because we can imagine, we are free."
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"When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."
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