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- Discovers
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
- Palm
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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
- Always
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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
- Eyes
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
- Pessimists
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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
- Must
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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
- Names
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People's fates are simplified by their names.
- Men
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
- Deaf
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
- Newspaper
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
- Only
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Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
- Being
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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
- Effort
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The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
- Process
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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
- Everyone
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Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
- Deception
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
- Darkness
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The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
- Life
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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
- Guilty
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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
- God
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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
- Good
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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
- End
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