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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

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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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It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courag...more

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To create is to live twice.

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To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were n...more

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The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it.

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You must realize that men make war as much with the enthusiasm of those who want it as with the despair of those who reject it with all their soul.

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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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I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.

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People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.

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It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

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And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a remembered hill, the smile of a beloved f...more

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For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things you cannot choke in ...more

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In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our truth.

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And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. We were forced to despair. We were cut off from th...more