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What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
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The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
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Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
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If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
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So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
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