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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

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We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

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To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

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The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 3rd, 1909

Died: August 24th, 1943

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