To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
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Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
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