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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."
"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."
"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."
"A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice."
"The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure."
"Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food."
"There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight."
"Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves."
"Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long."
"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."
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