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Man is a useless passion
Existence precedes and rules essence
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it
The past is the luxury of proprietors
A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words
If literature isn�t everything, it�s not worth a single hour of someone�s trouble
To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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