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A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images. - [Novels] A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. - [Truth] All healthy men have thought of their own suicide. - [Suicide] Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower. - [Autumn] But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? - [Happiness] Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. - [Charm] Every revolution ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. - [Revolution] Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. - [Freedom] He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool. - [Cowardice] In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. - [Understanding] Life is a sum of all your choices. - [Life] Life is absurd. - [Life] Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. - [Mankind] Murder is terribly exhausting. - [Murder] Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given. - [Nature] Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. - [Normalcy] Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. - [Future] The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to. - [Absurdity] The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - [Absurdity] The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. - [Evil] There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues. - [Goodness] There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. - [Fate] To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first. - [Marriage] Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. - [Generosity] We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. - [Trust] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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