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One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

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My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.
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To hope is to contradict the future.
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Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
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What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!
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No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary... Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes.
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We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.
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True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.
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As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.
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Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.
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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
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A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.
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Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
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How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.
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In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.
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He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
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