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It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
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You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.
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Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
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Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?
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There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.
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Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
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No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
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We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
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Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.
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The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.
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Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
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Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.
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If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.
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To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
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I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.
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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
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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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