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"No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does."
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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."
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"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of."


"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."


"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to."


"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography."


"All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold."


"You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish."


"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."


"There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that."
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