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French Resistance Fighter Inspirational Quotes (1528)

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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
Samuel Beckett
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Words fail, there are times when even they fail.
Samuel Beckett
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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Simone Weil
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
Simone Weil
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She is standing on my lids And her hair is in my hair She has the colour of my eye She has the body of my hand In my shade she is engulfed As a stone against the sky She will never close her eyes And she does not let me sleep And her dreams in the bright day Make the suns evaporate And me laugh cry and laugh Speak when I have nothing to say
Paul Eluard
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We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
Simone Weil
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Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.
Georges Bidault
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Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.
Samuel Beckett
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The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.
Louis Aragon
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What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.
Rene Char
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Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.
Jacques Ellul
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
Samuel Beckett
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That penny farthing hell you call your mind
Samuel Beckett
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
Samuel Beckett
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God is a witness that cannot be sworn.
Samuel Beckett
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
Simone Weil
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Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
Louis Aragon
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Truth is one, but error is manifold.
Simone Weil
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Having money is a way of being free of money.
Albert Camus
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There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.
Albert Camus
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A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history he is at the service of those who suffer it.
Albert Camus
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The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
Albert Camus
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I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
Albert Camus
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It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.
Albert Camus
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