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

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" To know oneself, one should assert oneself. "

" When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. "

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" The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. "

" 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. "

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

" It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. "

" 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. "

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" Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. "

" How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable. "

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

" Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler. "

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

" A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. "

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

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

" 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. "