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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Topic: Achievement
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Topic: Art and Artists
Source: None
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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Topic: Books
Source: None
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Topic: Charm
Source: None
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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Topic: Charm
Source: None
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In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved--and not the reverse.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Topic: Experience
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We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
Topic: Fallibility
Source: None
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There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Topic: Fate
Source: None
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Topic: Freedom
Source: None
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Topic: Generosity
Source: None
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I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
Topic: Genius
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
Topic: Happiness
Source: None
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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
Topic: Hope
Source: None
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The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
Topic: Leadership
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Topic: Life
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Topic: Literary
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
Topic: Literature
Source: None
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After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Topic: Man
Source: None
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Topic: Nature
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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
Topic: Optimism
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What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Topic: Rebellion
Source: None
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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
Topic: Suffering
Source: None
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Topic: Virtue
Source: None
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