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We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.

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To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

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Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes.

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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

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We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

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What, I believe, produces in me the deep feeling, in which I live, of incongruity with others, is that most think with sensitivity, while I feel with thought.

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Out of a few misunderstandings with reality we construct beliefs and hopes, and we live on these crusts, which we call bread, just like poor children who play at being happy.

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But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

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One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.

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