Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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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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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
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What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
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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.
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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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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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The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
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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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I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
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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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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
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How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
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On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers, and this, always, is what the heart needs. The earth must have risen in just such a light the morning the world was born.
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There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
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The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
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Live to the point of tears.
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