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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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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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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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To create is to live twice.

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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

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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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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

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

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It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

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And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a remembered hill, the smile of a beloved f...more

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For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things you cannot choke in ...more

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In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our truth.

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And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. We were forced to despair. We were cut off from th...more