- don't walk beside me, i may not lead. don't walk in front of me, i may not follow. just walk beside me and be my friend.
- If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
- But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
- I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
- He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
- After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
- Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
- Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
- Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
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