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"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities."
"Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else."
"Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."
"Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be."
"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."
"Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions."
"In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will."
"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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