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"The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn."
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"I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it."
"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way, as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves."
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"I would like to be able to breathe- to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely."
"Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness compassion intelligence everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible the absolute the sky on fire inexhaustible springtime life after death and death itself transfigured into eternal life."
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