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- What is a rebel? A man who says no.

- You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

- He who despairs over an event is a coward but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

- Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

- It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

- Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

- The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

- Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

- Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

- If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

- The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

- In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

- Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

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