A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.
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Man is a useless passion.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Hell is other people.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Existence precedes and rules essence.
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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
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I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
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I am condemned to freedom. I am not free because I can make choices, but because I must make them, all the time, even when I think I have no choice to make.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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Everything has been figured out except how to live.
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One always dies too soon—or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing othe...
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There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the burning marl. Old wives' tales!There's no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS--OTHER PEOPLE!
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God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one ...
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity
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It is the same thing: killing, dying, it is the same thing: one is just as alone in each. He is luck, he will only die once. As for me, for te...
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If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget
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Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.
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In love, one and one are one.
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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
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It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my king. I wanted for order to rule and that it r...
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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If we must absolutely mention this state of affairs, I suggest that we call ourselves 'absent', that is more proper.
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A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.
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