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On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or...more

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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

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I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectab...more

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If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.

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What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

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To create is to live twice.

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Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

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This is why it is not true that culture can be, even temporarily, suspended in order to make way for a new culture. Man’s unbroken testimony as to his...more

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I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. ButSisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and r...more

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The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it.

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How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.

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One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

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I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.

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In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

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People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.