"e only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us."

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“It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.”

“Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.”

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“Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.”

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