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- Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
- I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
- I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
- Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the…
- The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
- We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to…
- I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
- It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in…
- Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.
- Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to…
- To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be…
- Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
- Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their…
- The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
- All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A…
- It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled…
- She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked…
- When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't…
- …. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be…
- All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not…
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