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Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

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In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin ...more

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Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

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

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In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

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Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way...more

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

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...since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might again...more

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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because ...more

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The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and ...more

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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

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There is only one class of men, the privileged class

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I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.