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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
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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.
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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
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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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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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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 as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.