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" Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. "

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" My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking. "

" If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. "

" When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. "

" I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. "

" That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. "

" Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. "

" One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. "

" Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have. "

" As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. "

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" Everything has been figured out, except how to live. "

" One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life. "

" The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. "

" Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. "

" Commitment is an act, not a word. "

" Life begins on the other side of despair. "

" No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point. "

" Existence precedes and rules essence. "

" Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. "

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" It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. "

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" There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. "

" God is absence. God is the solitude of man. "

" Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. "

" I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist. "

" One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day. "

" Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. "

" We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. "

" We do not judge the people we love. "

" Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. "

" I hate victims who respect their executioners. "