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" Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. "

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

" Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable. "

" The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. "

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

" I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. "

" To know oneself, one should assert oneself. "

" Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. "

" Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. "

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

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

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

" In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children. "

" Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. "

" Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. "

" We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. "

" Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I know of only one duty, and that is to love. "

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" Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me. "

" Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. "

" Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. "

" The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. "

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

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