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Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted...more

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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which ...more

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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

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The meaning of life is that it ends

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Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results.

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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

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I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother rea...more

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Kill me, or you are a murderer.

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The meaning of life is that it stops.

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We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished i...more

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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

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L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.

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So if you find nothing in the corridors open the doors, and if you find nothing behind these doors there are more floors, and if you find nothing up t...more

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My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and ca...more

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are...more