Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning.
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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
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I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
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