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I have never been able,

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
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There are always reasons for

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
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In the vast reaches of

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
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Life can only be understood

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
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Charm is a way of

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
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The world is never quiet,

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
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Those who weep for the

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
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If Christianity is pessimistic as

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
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Virtue cannot separate itself from

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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The society of merchants can

The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.
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