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