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• Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a…
• On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without…
• If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows…
• One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that…
• The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since…
• The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
• There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness,…
• There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the…

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