What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?"
"I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps."
"Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?"
"Comprehension.


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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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