"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."
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"We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it"
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"The bourgeois are other people."
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"To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois."
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"Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice."
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"If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right."
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"We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing."
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"To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine."
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"Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich."
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"Being bored is an insult to oneself."
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"An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one."
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"I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries."
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"I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?"
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"I am not sincere, even when I say I am not."
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"If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider."
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"I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self."
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"Fame is a constant effort"
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"Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend."
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"We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper."
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"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
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