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"There is something divine in mindless beauty, and Mersault was particularly responsive to it."
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"The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever."

"Beautiful isn't something you become. It's something you realize you are."

"Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive."

"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"

"However beautiful a morning may be, we still must not wish it to continue endlessly, because this shall mean missing forever all the beauties of the night!"
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"I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say."

"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."

"How did I picture the life after the grave?I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it."

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

"The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression."

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."

"You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about other people - which means there is no way out. Happy and judged or absolved and miserable."

"Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely."

"How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!"
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