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I grasp at each second, trying to suck it dry: nothing happens which I do not seize, which I do not fix forever in myself, nothing, neither the fugitive tenderness of those lovely eyes, nor the noises of the street, nor the false dawn of early morning: and even so the minute passes and I do not hold it back, I like to see it pass.
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He yawned. He had finished the day and he had also finished with his youth. Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, common sense stoicism - all the aids whereby a man may savour, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life.
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I wanted for the moments in my life to follow each other and order themselves like those of a life remembered. It would be just as well to try to catch time by the tail.
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L'homme est une passion inutile.
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Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
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We are in hell and I will have my turn!
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Ma pensée, c'est moi: voilà pourquoi je ne peux pas m'arrêter. J'existe parce que je pense … et je ne peux pas m'empêcher de penser.
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All human activities are equivalent … and … all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.
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Don’t you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.
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What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
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Only a neutral, who is indifferent to the stake and perhaps to all stakes, can appreciate aesthetically the grandeur of a fine disaster
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Virtue is the death of conscience because it is the habit of Good, and yet the ethic of the honest man infinitely prefers virtue to the noblest agonies of conscience. Thus, being poses nonbeing and eliminates it. There is only being
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It was a constraint; he makes of it his mission
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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The Communist Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.
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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
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I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.
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His obedience is real since he really and truly fulfills his mission, since he runs real risks in order to carry out the beloved’s orders. But, on the other hand, it is imaginary because he submits only to a creature of his mind.
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I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.
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The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
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