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Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
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A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
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You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
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What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
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A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
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