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“Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are myrevolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity ofconsciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitationto deathan...”
“Don't lies in the end put us on the path to truth? And don't my stories, true or false, point to the same conclusion? Don't they have the same meaning? So, what does it matter whether they are true...”
“The mind, when it reaches its limits, must make a judgment and choose its conclusions. This is where suicide and the reply stand.”
“Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything?”
“To create is to live twice.”
“...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...”
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occa”
“Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.”
“I didnt like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.”
“At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have not yet been lost; in the second, they're returning. It is in the thick o...”
“It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.”
“They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the less capable they were of breaking it.”
“How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!”
“But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons about itself, it multiplies like reason itself and assumes all the aspects of the syllogism. Once...”
“I grant we should add a third category: that of the true healers. But it is a fact one doesn't come across many of them, and anyhow it must be a hard vocation. That's why I decided to take, in ever...”
“We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more to peoples poisoned by the misery of the century. Naturally, ...”
“Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood. This is why our thinkers feel free to say just about anything.”
“This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. For if I try to ...”
“Men die:and they are not happy.”
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.”
