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What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.
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I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
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Everything turns on pain the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.
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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
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In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
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A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.
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Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
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Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
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What is pity but the vice of kindness.
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If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
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Basis of society: anonymous sweat.
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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
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There is no limit to suffering.
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How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.
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We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.
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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
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Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.
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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
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Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.
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As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.
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