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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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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

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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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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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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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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

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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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I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.

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It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.

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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

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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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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic...more

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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his...more