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The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this...more

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There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this...more

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Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.

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Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

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In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the ...more

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But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no 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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Now I can broach the notion of suicide. It has already been felt what solution might be given. At this point the problem is reversed. It was previousl...more

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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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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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The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

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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 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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If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

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Don't you think our society is designed to kill in that way? Of course, you've surely heard about those tiny fish in the rivers of Brazil which attack...more