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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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But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

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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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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

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The meaning of life is that it stops.

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No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy

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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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Concerning this a man once said:Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parablesyou yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all yo...more

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And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back in the summer with which it begins, and f...more