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

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" Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it. "

" Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. "

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

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" All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. "

" In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. "

" 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. "

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

" Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. "

" There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change. "

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

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