“I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.”
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“The best way to gain listeners’ confidence is make them think you have trusted them with a secret.”
― The Paris Vendetta
― The Paris Vendetta
“The way to live is to throw ourselves, not into faith, but into our own lives, conducting them in affirmation of every moment, exactly as it is, without wishing that anything was different, and without harbouring peevish resentment against others or against our fate.”
― At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
― At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
“The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out. —Richard P. Feynman”
― Source Code: My Beginnings
― Source Code: My Beginnings
“On the day when crime dons the apparel of innocence—through a curious transposition peculiar to our times—it is innocence that is called upon to justify itself.”
― The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
― The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
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