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- stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves
- 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…
- I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign…
- I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When…
- At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but…
- Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the…
- ...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I…
- There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The…
- 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…
- My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.
- Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone,…
- And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied…
- Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly
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