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Absurd, irreducible; nothing ...

Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it.

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Men equally honest, equally d...

Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.

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I have crossed the seas, I ha...

I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment.

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I exist. It's sweet, so sweet...

I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow. And light: you'd think it floated all by itself. It stirs. It brushes by me, melts and vanishes. Gently, gently. There is bubbling water in my mouth. I swallow. It slides down my throat, it caresses me — and now it comes up again into my mouth. For ever I shall have a little pool of whitish water in my mouth - lying low - grazing my tongue. And this pool is still me. And the tongue. And the throat is me.

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I said to myself, 'I want to ...

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

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We will freedom for freedom’s...

We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.

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Philosophy appears to some pe...

Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.

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Torture is senseless violence...

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

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You know how much I admire Ch...

You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.

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She suffers as a miser. She m...

She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.

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it was odd, he thought, that ...

it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.

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Originally, poetry creates th...

Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.

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The writer is committed when ...

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

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That is exactly the writer's ...

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

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Everything is gratuitous, thi...

Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift . . . that's nausea.

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When one loves animals and ch...

When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.

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Un homme n'est rien d'autre q...

Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings.

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If I did not publish this aut...

If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.

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Yes, I am so free. And what a...

Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.

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I will take it all: tongs, mo...

I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.

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