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There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.
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Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
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Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences—all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.
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What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?
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You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
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Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
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I know with certainty that a man s work is nothing but the long journey to recover, through the detours of art, the two or three simple and great images which first gained access to his heart.
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After all, perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.
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