Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
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He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new.
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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
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We cannot put off living until we are ready.
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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
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