The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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Heroin teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical sufffering, there is nothing real.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.
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The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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