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| Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. | | Uncategorized | |
| Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. | | Stupidity | |
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| The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to | | Uncategorized | |
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| The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. | | Uncategorized | |
| The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves. | | Uncategorized | |
| The doctor glanced up at the statue of the Republic, then said he did not know if he was using the language of reason but he knew he was using the language of the facts as everybody could see them - which wasn't necessarily the same thing | | Uncategorized | |
| The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. | | Evil; Ignorance; Intention; Understanding | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. | | Uncategorized | |
| The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date. | | Uncategorized | |
| The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action. | | Uncategorized | |
| The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. | | Uncategorized | |
| The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. | | Existence; Freedom; Rebellion | |
| The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom ''charitable'' souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. | | Uncategorized | |
| The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions. | | Uncategorized | |
