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 | "You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot
create experience. You must undergo it." | |
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Found in the topic Experience.
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| "Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his
face." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant"s
revolving door." | |
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Found in the topic Greatness.
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| "Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes
on itself, and dies of all others." | |
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Found in the topic Art.
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| "We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew
ourselves perfectly, we should die." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Integrity has no need of rules." | |
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Found in the topic Integrity.
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| "I was absent at the moment I took up the most space." | |
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Found in the topic Absent.
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| "We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach
some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us
seriously." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher
achievement." | |
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Found in the topic Achievement.
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| "Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the
seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are
alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their
skepticism." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." | |
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Found in the topic Autumn.
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| "At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills,
the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute
lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more
remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the
world is absurd." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "I was about to tell him he was wrong to dwell on it, because it
really didn"t matter. But he cut me off and urged me one last time,
drawing himself up to his full height and asking me if I believed in God.
I said no. He sat down indignantly. He said it was impossible; all men
believed in God, even those who turn their backs on him. That was his
belief, and if he were ever to doubt it, his life would become
meaningless. "Do you want my life to be meaningless?" he shouted. As far
as I could see, it didn"t have anything to do with me, and I told him so.
But from across the table he had already thrust the crucifix in my face
and was screaming irrationally, "I am a Christian. I ask Him to forgive
you for sins. How can you not believe that He suffered for you?" I was
struck by how sincere he seemed, but I had had enough. It was getting
hotter and hotter. As always, whenever I want to get rid of someone I"m
not really listening to, I made it appear as if I agreed. To my surprise,
he acted triumphant. "You see, you see!" he said. "You do believe, don"t
you, and you"re going to place your trust in Him, aren"t you?" Obviously,
I again said no. He fell back in his chair." | |
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Found in the topic Suffer.
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| "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without
having asked any clear question." | |
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Found in the topic Charm.
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| "Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice
charity." | |
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Found in the topic Charity.
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| "It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had
to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that
it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." | |
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Found in the topic Contrary.
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| "There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn." | |
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Found in the topic Fate.
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| "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth." | |
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Found in the topic Absurd.
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| "A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly,
without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing
else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the
worse." | |
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Found in the topic Bad.
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| "Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better." | |
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Found in the topic Better.
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