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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
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America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
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Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
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Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.
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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
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Faith is not a thing which one ''loses,'' we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.
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God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
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I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
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It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
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