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

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" To be happy we must not be too concerned with others. "

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" A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. "

" Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles. "

" Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. "

" It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. "

" Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity. "

" Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much? "

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

" The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer. "

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" For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. "

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

" 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. "

" Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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