"What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough."
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"Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection."
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"God is absence. God is the solitude of man."
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"Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being."
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"I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good."
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"But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride."
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"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
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"Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?"
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"I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity."
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"To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp."
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"You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm."
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"What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness."
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"Acting is happy agony."
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"You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them."
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"Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible."
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"What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death."
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"When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking."
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"When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men."
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"We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act."
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"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat."
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