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| Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. | | Writing | |
| To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. | | Uncategorized | |
| To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. | | Uncategorized | |
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| To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. | | Uncategorized | |
To give all, to sacrifice all without expecting to get anything in
return--this is love.
C'est cela l'amour, tout donner, tout sacrifier sans espoir de retour. | | Uncategorized | |
| To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. | | Uncategorized | |
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| To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. | | Uncategorized | |
| To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile? | | Uncategorized | |
| To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first | | Marriage | |
| To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred. | | Uncategorized | |
| Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. | | Charity; Generosity | |
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| True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person | | Debauchery | |
| Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. | | Uncategorized | |
| Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. | | Uncategorized | |
| Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. | | Uncategorized | |
| We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others. | | Uncategorized | |
| We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. | | Uncategorized | |
