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May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.
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Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss.
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Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
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The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.
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So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
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I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
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“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
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On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
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If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
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When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.
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Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
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The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
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Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.
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Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.
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My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.
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Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
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The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art.
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Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
Albert Camus