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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? "

" Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. "

" All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football. "

" The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. "

" 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. "

" Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. "

" To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady. "

" Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. "

" In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. "

" Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. "

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

" 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. "

" We are all special cases. "

" There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. "

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

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

" The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. "

" 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. "

" There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. "

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

" To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence? "

" We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves. "

" 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. "

" The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. "

" To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. "

" At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. "

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