Quote #196

The divine availability of the condemned man before whom the prison doors open in a certain early dawn, that unbelievable disinterestedness with regard to everything except for the pure flame of life - it is clear that death and the absurd are here the principles of the only reasonable freedom: that which a human heart can experience and live.

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  3. The contrary of a civilized nation is a creative nation.
  4. The Empire supposes a negation and a certainty: the certainty of the infinite malleability of man and the negation of human nature.
  5. The Church has been so harsh with heretics only because she deemed that there is no worse enemy than a child who has gone astray. But the r…
  6. The fecundity and the importance of a literary form are often measured by the trash it contains.
  7. The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world.
  8. The great novelists are philosopher-novelists whom write in images instead of arguments.

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