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It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

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Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?

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I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey.

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Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

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In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

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Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

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In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.

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A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

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The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically, expresses an aspiration for order.

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When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

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I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.

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Of all the schools of patience and lucidity, creation is the most effective. It is also the staggering evidence of man's sole dignity: the dogged revolt against his condition, perseverance in an effort considered sterile. It calls for a daily effort, self-mastery, a precise estimate of the limits of truth, measure, and strength. It constitutes an ascesis. All that "for nothing," in order to repeat and mark time. But perhaps the great work of art has less importance in itself than in the ordeal it demands of a man and the opportunity it provides him of overcoming his phantoms and approaching a little closer to his naked reality.

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For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity.

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The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world — and to pay attention to man.

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In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all.

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Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

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In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

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Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.

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