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Albert Camus
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Hacía tiempo que había aprendido a gozar de las cosas sencillas, cosas que no se podían comprar.
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Sufre más el que espera siempre
Que aquel que nunca esperó a nadie?
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The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
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Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juic...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA A medida que transcurría el tiempo, se afirmaba en la certeza de que el mundo y la vida eran más f...
ARTURO PéREZ-REVERTE
A veces hay que alejarse de la multitud para ser una mejor persona. No siempre es fácil, eso es seg...
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Mi reputación ya está formada, Rose. Me puse mis metas y luche por ellas, hace ya mucho tiempo. Lo...
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SáNDOR MáRAI No hay tiempo para el presente. Vamos del
pasado al futuro, que nuevamente se vuelve pasado: ¡...
FRANCESC MIRALLES
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ALBERT CAMUS
We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
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It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. I...
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Lo esperado no sucede. Es lo inesperado lo que acontece.
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JOHN C. MAXWELL
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JOHN LEONARD
Me pilló completamente por sorpresa. Después de todo el tiempo que había pasado con Gale, de obse...
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Los mortales siempre quieren algo más. Desean dinero, pero en realidad buscan una vida sin preocupa...
JACKSON PEARCE Quiero esperar en silencio la séptima ola. Si, aquí cuentan la historia indómita de la séptima o...
DANIEL GLATTAUER
He ido encontrando tesoros en lugares que no queria buscar. He estado escuchando sabiduría de bocas...
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Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
HENRY ROLLINS
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…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
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Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
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In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came ...
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Con el tiempo uno se acostumbra a todo.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Ah ! cher ami, que les hommes sont pauvres en invention. Ils croient toujours qu'on se suicide pour ...
ALBERT CAMUS Yo quería a mi papá con un amor que nunca volví a sentir hasta que nacieron mis hijos. Cuando los...
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Esta ciudad es bruja, sabe Usted, Daniel? Se le mete a uno en la piel y le roba el alma sin que uno ...
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Creo que si alguna vez tengo hijos y están disgustados, no les diré que la gente se muere de hambr...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Era curiosa la forma como había adoptado el dolor que sentía. Había tenido tanto tiempo para prep...
EDUARDO SACHERI La memoria es como libro en el cual se escribe toda nuestra vida. Algunas veces deseamos cerrarlo y ...
AUDREY DRY
Recuerda que algunas veces las personas no son como crees que son.
JOHN GREEN
A veces, lees un libro y te llena con este fervor evangélico raro, y te convences de que el mundo d...
JOHN GREEN ¿Cómo podemos haber conocido y querido a alguien durante tantos años, considerarlo un amigo de lo...
SíLVIA SOLER
—Bueno, no creo que su intención sea que siempre comprendamos su mensaje. Creo que a veces solo t...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Me tocaría pensar en algo entonces, algo que supondría deshacernos de las defensas mágicas de la ...
RICHELLE MEAD
Dicen que un buen amigo es aquel que sabe recordar y olvidar a un tiempo
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
Creo que a veces no sentimos todo lo que somos, pero los demás sí lo notan.
KRISTIN CASHORE ¿Llegará el día en que sea capaz de sacármela de la cabeza? Incluso ahora que la situación en l...
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O que parece haver de desprezo entre homem e homem, de indiferente que permite que se mate gente sem...
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This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS
And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
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And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
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You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
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The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
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…Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
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For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
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In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
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Deberías despertarme -le digo, porque yo interrumpo su sueño dos o tres veces cuando tengo una noc...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Es mucho más fácil no saber las cosas algunas veces. Las cosas cambian. Los amigos se van. Y la vi...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Espero curarme de ti en unos días. Debo dejar de fumarte, de beberte, de pensarte. Es posible. Sigu...
JAIME SABINES Pero el tiempo pasa, y dura. Y hay un momento en que todo se estanca. Los días dejan de contarse, l...
ARTURO PéREZ-REVERTE
-...tiene frío porque se encuentra sola; no hay contacto que despierte el fuego que tiene dentro. E...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Doña Lorena, una bibliotecaria sabia que rondaba por allí por las tardes, siempre me preparaba una...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
Polly había llorado tanto que se sentía deshidratada. El llanto juvenil es una cosa y el llanto ad...
LAURIE COLWIN Cierra los ojos- me dijo- Voy a prometerte cosas y no quiero que veas lo mucho que las deseo.
ELíSABET BENAVENT Mi abuela tenía una teoría muy interesante; decía que todos nacemos con una caja de fósforos ade...
LAURA ESQUIVEL I was at ease in everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. Each joy made ...
THE FALL
And I fired four more times at a lifeless body and the bullets sank in without leaving a mark. And i...
ALBERT CAMUS
To create is to live twice.
ALBERT CAMUS
Es curioso cómo el pensamiento incurre en lo inverosímil, cómo se lo permite momentáneamente, c�...
JAVIER MARíAS A veces una mirada hacia atrás vale más que una hacia adelante, eres lo que has vivido, y serás p...
ED HERNANDEZ Tenéis que entender la importancia de observar vuestros pasos al mismo tiempo que vuestro destino.
FLAVIA COMPANY
I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart ach...
ALBERT CAMUS
Hay libros que tenemos a nuestro lado veinte años sin leerlos, libros de los que no nos alejamos, q...
ELIAS CANETTI .. Me producen escalofríos los que se arrodillan y besan el suelo, los que se flagelan, los que se ...
LAURA RESTREPO
En la amistad como en el amor se es más feliz por las cosas que se ignoran que por las que se saben...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Quería eso, pero esperaba más. Sufre uno por aquello que espera, más que por lo que quiere. Acept...
XAVIER VELASCO
En cierto sentido, la visión del mundo que tenía el Partido se imponía con éxito a gente incapaz...
GEORGE ORWELL Se me hace muy chistoso que el mesero, que se ve a leguas que es mexicano, sin embargo nos hable en ...
GUADALUPE LOAEZA -A pesar de nuestros pobres esfuerzos, el limbo debe estar lleno de chinos, ¿no cree usted?
-Y...
CAMILO JOSé CELA La publicidad cada vez se va a ir haciendo mucho mas práctica, personalizada e inmediata.
CRISTO LEON
A veces la gente necesita mentirse a sí misma más que ninguna otra cosa
PATRICK NESS Del presente recordaremos sólo aquello que la memoria quiera conservar, pero ella no es libre, se t...
CRISTINA PERI ROSSI
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JOHN GREEN
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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood ...
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
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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 as i...
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every o...
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will nev...
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Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
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The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
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Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
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I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries...
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them togethe...
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Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws...
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I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew...
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Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
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How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
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Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
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Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most ...
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the c...
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it...
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We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
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Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the ot...
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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Excep...
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It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
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I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
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We are all special cases.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
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To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
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Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
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It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
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What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his t...
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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
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I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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Live to the point of tears.
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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
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My conclusion will be simple. It will consist of saying, in the very midst of the sound and the fury...
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What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations whi...
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
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God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
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The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. Wh...
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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
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Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the va...
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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we c...
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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood ...
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When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nosta...
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
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More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alon...
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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an ac...
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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, ...
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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let ...
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To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not t...
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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that...
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As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab...
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Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
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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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