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| I don't want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man | | Genius | |
| I know of only one duty, and that is to love | | Love | |
| I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. | | Judgement | |
| I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers. | | Uncategorized | |
| I was absent at the moment I took up the most space. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Belief; Conviction; God; Living | |
| I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. | | Uncategorized | |
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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. | | Uncategorized | |
| If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation. | | Uncategorized | |
| If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life | | Life; Sin | |
| If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth. | | Uncategorized | |
| If there is sin against life, it consists… in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. | | Uncategorized | |
| If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. | | Uncategorized | |
| In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion | | Uncategorized | |
| In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death | | Funerals | |
| In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. | | Uncategorized | |
| In the depth of winter I finally learned that there within me lay an invincible summer. | | Uncategorized | |
