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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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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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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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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-ho...more

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Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as here it was the same solemn pause, the ...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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I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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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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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.