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"Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know."
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"I am alive because you want me to."
"Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it."
"He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree."
"Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."
"You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all."
"Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him."
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"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."
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"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."
"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."
"The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion."
"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."
"Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."
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