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| The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. |
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| The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all |
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| The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. |
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| The society based on production is only productive, not creative. |
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| The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial. |
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| The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. |
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| The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart swell. |
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| The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience |
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| The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge. |
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| The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. |
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| Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came the human beings, they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate - for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself. |
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| There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues |
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| There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. |
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| There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. |
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| There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. |
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| There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. |
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| There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. |
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| Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. |
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| Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. |
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