- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Human Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
- Each Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am I plus my circumstances.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
- Efficacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law is born from despair of human nature.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot put off living until we are ready.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
To live is to feel oneself lost.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
- Inferiority
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020