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"The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another."
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"I am alive because you want me to."
"Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it."
"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."
"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."
"One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us."
"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."
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