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" Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. "

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" How hard, how bitter it is to become a man! "

" 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. "

" Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. "

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

" What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. "

" The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. "

" A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. "

" The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. "

" 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. "

" We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. "

" Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. "

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

" To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows. "

" Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. "

" I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up. "

" Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. "

" 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. "

" Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. "