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" No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. "

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" There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds. "

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

" Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. "

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" There is no love of life without despair of life. "

" Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified. "

" Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. "

" Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. "

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

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

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