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" For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. "

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" Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. "

" The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. "

" Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. "

" The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. "

" We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. "

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

" Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. "

" Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. "

" It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. "

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

" The society based on production is only productive, not creative. "

" He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. "

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

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

" Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. "

" Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. "

" We call first truths those we discover after all the others. "

" A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. "

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

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" Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. "

" Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children. "

" Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. "

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" There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. "

" Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. "

" 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. "

" The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves. "

" 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. "

" Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret. "

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