But the longer a man grows in his own darkness, the more his outer form diminishes.

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History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.

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Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weights so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, with someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

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When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into a concentration camp?

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What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

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People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.

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Yes, if you're looking for infinity, just close your eyes!

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The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

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