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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
The world belongs to those who feel nothing. The essential condition of the practical man is the absence of sensibility.
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The Book of Disquiet
To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
The Second Sex
If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women...
A Room of One's Own
The beauty of the world... has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
The world would only cease to terrify me if I became the world. If I were the world, I wouldn't be afraid. If we are the world, we are moved by a delicate radar that guides.
To eat communion bread will be to taste the world's indifference, and to immerse myself in nothingness.
The Hour of the Star
Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.
The Hour of the Star
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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