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My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kills every question. I don’t belong here.

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I simply took refuge among women. As you know, they don't really condemn any weakness; they would be more inclined to try to humiliate or disarm our s...more

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

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

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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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What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

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Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

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This is why it is not true that culture can be, even temporarily, suspended in order to make way for a new culture. Man’s unbroken testimony as to his...more

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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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Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

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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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One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

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Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.