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"She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."
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"Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."
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"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."
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"Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it."
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"As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become."
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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
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"The existentialist says at once that man is anguish."
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"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."
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"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
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"God is absence. God is the solitude of man."
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