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- 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…
- I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
- A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
- Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,'…
- A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may…
- ...there was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight.…
- On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.
- To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope. On…
- There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage…
- So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
- There are more things to admire in men then to despise.
- What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
- Fate is not in man but around him
- I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough…
- That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.
- By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one…
- Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this…
- You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so…
- The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
- Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for…
- God is not necessary to createculpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
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