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"He doesn't play the game ... He refuses to lie. Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler. But Meursault, contrary to appearances, doesn't want to make life simpler. He says what he is, he refuses to hide his feelings and society immediately feels threatened."
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"Don't spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth."
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"You couldn't listen to honest man whom you hate."
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"I do not say words, which you want to hear.The words just told me, to write them down."
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"Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth."
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"I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy."
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"I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?"
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"I won't lie-I don't."
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"If you say that you have never lied at all,then you give too much trust on anybody."
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"Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it."
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"98% of the things said by a drunk man are true, 98% of those said by a horny man aren't."
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"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."
Relationship
"And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a remembered hill, the smile of a beloved face."
Memory
"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."
Wisdom
"To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well."
Leadership
"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."
Politics
"Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness."
Social
"In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significance. If it has no such foundations, then we are plunged into madness there is no way out except to find some significance or to desist."
Morality
"No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition."
Morality
"There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted."
Work
"There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up."
Philosophy
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