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The Rebel (1951)
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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
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If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.
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Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.
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Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
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Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
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A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists.
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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.
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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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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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If Nietzsche and Hegel serve as alibis to the masters of Dachau and Karaganda, that does not condemn their entire philosophy. But it does lead to the suspicion that one aspect of their thought, or of their logic, can lead to these appalling conclusions.
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Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to the present.
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Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically, expresses an aspiration for order.
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In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.
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In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
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The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.
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The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
November 7, 1913
Died:
January 4, 1960
(aged 46)
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