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" As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. "

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" Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. "

" Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. "

" I know of only one duty, and that is to love. "

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" Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. "

" Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. "

" I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. "

" An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. "

" Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. "

" Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. "

" Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. "

" All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. "

" In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. "

" Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. "

" It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. "

" A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. "

" When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. "

" We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. "

" Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. "

" Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. "

" Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. "

" We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. "

" Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself. "

" Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. "

" A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. "

" You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. "

" Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. "

" You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade. "

" The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. "

" To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. "