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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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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
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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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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
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Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
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Category: Literature Quotes
Occupation: Writer
Date of Birth: September 16, 1897
Date of Death: July 9, 1962
Nationality: French





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