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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
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Jupiter: I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers?Aegisteus: Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.
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The world is sacred because it gives an inkling of a meaning that escapes us
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
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Catherine: Why commit Evil?Goetz: Because Good has already been done.Catherine: Who has done it?Goetz: God the Father. I, on the other hand, am improvising.
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All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
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Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.
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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
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I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.
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You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.
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I felt less alone when I didn’t know you yet: I was waiting for the other. I thought only of his strength and never of my weakness. And now here you are, Orestes, it was you. I look at you and I see that we are two orphans.
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
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I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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…in order to change poverty into wealth, one must start by displaying it.
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Monsieur … I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
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Dostoevsky once wrote: 'If God did not exist, everything would be permitted'; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself. He discovers forthwith, that he is without excuse.
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I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.
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His business is here, it is here that he is despised and vilified, it is here that he must carry out his undertaking.
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One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
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For those who want ‘to change life', ‘to reinvent love,’ God is nothing but a hindrance.
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It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake
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