A man is responsible for his ignorance.

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Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

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The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

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Beauty is a rebellion against time.

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The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

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The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

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The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

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The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

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