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This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.

It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life ... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.