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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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The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

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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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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

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

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If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

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Don't you think our society is designed to kill in that way? Of course, you've surely heard about those tiny fish in the rivers of Brazil which attack...more

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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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The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that must necessaril...more

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

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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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We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible.