People don't love each other at our age —they please each other, that's all. Later on when you're old and impotent, you can love somebody. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.


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We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
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It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those ...
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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no ar...
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To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case...
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expec...
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Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same ...
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within ...
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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, ...
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The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist ...
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calcula...
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True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, he...
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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, ...
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In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balanc...
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Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
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More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinai...
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Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
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On certain mornings, as we turn a corner,
an exquisite dew falls on our heart
and then vanishe...
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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
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That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
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True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; he...
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life ...
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others
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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
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Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forge...
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spa...
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What is a rebel? A man who says no
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Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret
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