Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
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We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
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You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
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Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
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Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
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