"Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."

Willpower, Desire, Restraint, Choice

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"Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."

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"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."

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"What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what I understand. And these two certainties--my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle--I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope which I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my condition?"

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