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If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: I want to be praised.
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To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
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What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
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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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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
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The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.
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One does not inhabit a country one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
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The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
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All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?
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Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
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Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.
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No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
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Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.
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Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.
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The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.
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I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
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To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.
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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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Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
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