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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."
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"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."
"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."
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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."
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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
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