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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.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

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

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

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.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

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