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- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
- Confide
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- Nov 07, 2020
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
- Innocence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no love of life without despair of life.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
- Govern
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- Nov 07, 2020
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
- Nov 07, 2020
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
- Nov 07, 2020
Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
- Leaf
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- Nov 07, 2020
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Detours
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
- Enhances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
- Knack
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
- Despair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Integrity has no need of rules.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020