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Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, ...more

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He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something ...more

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Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved,...more

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I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming l...more

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I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

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O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us!" A second time, eh, what imprud...more

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We can act only in our time, among the people who surround us. We shall be capable of nothing until we know whether we have the right to kill our fell...more

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In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significan...more

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Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.

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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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A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can ha...more

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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

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It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclai...more

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If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposi...more

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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.