The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
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Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
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The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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