I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
("The Stranger")
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May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends.
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Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
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In short, the moment I grasped that there was something to judge in me, I realized that there was in them an irresistible vocation for judgment.
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The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.
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