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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

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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.

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I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

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I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

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It is only in our decisions that we are important.

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If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

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I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

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Hell is other people.

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There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

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