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We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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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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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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Don’t walk behind me I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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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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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
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Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.
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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
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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.