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The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
I am I plus my circumstances.
Man is a fugitive from nature.
Love is exclusivity, selection.
Life is fired at us point blank.
To live is to feel oneself lost.
Triumph cannot help being cruel.
The will to be oneself is heroism
History is the science of people.
To wonder is to begin to understand.
Law is born from despair of human nature.
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
The real magic wand is the child's own mind.
We cannot put off living until we are ready.
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
Life is a series of collisions with the future.
Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.
Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.
It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.
Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.
Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.
Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.
The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.
Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.
Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.
