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I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
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No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
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He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.
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What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again.
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Art and revolt will die only with the last man.
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The one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, playing.
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Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.
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Find your happiness in yourself.
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Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
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But perhaps we should love what we cannot understand.
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The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
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Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
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I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.
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No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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