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Those who believe in their truth - the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men - leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom huma

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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

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A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

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To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

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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 mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

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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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There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

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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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Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status

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Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

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