Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us — by obligations, not by rights.

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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

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There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

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A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

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Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

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Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

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