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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

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The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this...more

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There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this...more

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Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.

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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fund...more

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Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

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Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

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Nothing in life is worth,turning your back on,if you love it.

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But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no s...more

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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

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You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about o...more

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Now I can broach the notion of suicide. It has already been felt what solution might be given. At this point the problem is reversed. It was previousl...more

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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

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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