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An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the ...more

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I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.

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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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There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the ...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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I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say

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

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There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.

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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 t...more

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

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I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now...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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Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad abou...more

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The world always says the same thing. And in that patient truth which proceeds from star to star is established a freedom that releases us from oursel...more