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Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

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Make us your slaves, but feed us.

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God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

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Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

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Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

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Man is bound to lie about himself

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Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

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They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

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Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?

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The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

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The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

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To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

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But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

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All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

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He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.

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I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O Lord!' but I do not want to cry out with them. While there's still time, I hasten to defend myself against it, and therefore I absolutely renounce all higher harmony. It is not worth one little tear of even that one tormented child who beat her chest with her little fist and prayed to 'dear God' in a stinking outhouse with her unredeemed tears!

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To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

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