There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.

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Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

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Deserve your dream.

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The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

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Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

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Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.

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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

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Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

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