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The Flies (1944)
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Now I am weary and I can no longer tell good from Evil, and I need someone to show me the way.
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I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
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I felt less alone when I didn't know you yet: I was waiting for the other. I thought only of his strength and never of my weakness. And now here you are, Orestes, it was you. I look at you and I see that we are two orphans.
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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
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Jupiter:
I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers?
Aegisteus:
Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.
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Your entire universe will not be enough to make me guilty. You are the king of the Gods, Jupiter, the king of the stones and of the stars, the king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of men.
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Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.
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Her face seems ravaged by both lightning and hail. But on yours there is something like the promise of a storm: one day passion will burn it to the bone.
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Suppose that I wish to deserve the title of robber of remorse and that I place in myself all [the townspeople's] repentence?
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Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.
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Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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Commoners are weightless. But he was a royal bon vivant who, no matter what, always weighed 125 kilos. I would be very surprised if he didn't have a few pounds left.
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Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
Louis Auchincloss
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Born:
June 21, 1905
Died:
April 15, 1980
(aged 74)
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