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

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

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" There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. "

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

" Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret. "

" No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. "

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" An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. "

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

" A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. "

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

" 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. "

" After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion. "

" The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. "

" The society based on production is only productive, not creative. "

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

" Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. "

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

" The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer. "

" At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. "

" Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself. "

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

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

" To know oneself, one should assert oneself. "

" Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. "

" The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves. "

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