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- There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was…
- But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while.…
- But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees…
- Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
- What is a rebel? A man who says no.
- I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
- Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.
- But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests…
- But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished…
- Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the…
- Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.
- To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see…
- I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man,…
- The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it…
- Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the…
- maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead.…
- A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
- In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence…
- When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation…
- If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.
- Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where…
- You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind.…
- What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in…
- A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
- A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the…
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