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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal."

"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."
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"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."


"Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself."


"I hadn't known Chancel very well, but ten days earlier I had seen him laughing with the others around the Christmas tree. Maybe Robert was right; the distance between the living and the dead really isn't very great. And yet, like myself, those future corpses who were drinking their coffee in silence appeared ashamed to be so alive."


"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time."


"As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light-it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it."


"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."


"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority."
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