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

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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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A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

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If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: "I recognize only...more

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

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Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!

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Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capab...more

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This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge,...more

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Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it...more