The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

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A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

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Light is time thinking about itself.

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Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

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To love is to undress our names.

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Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.

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For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.

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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

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The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

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Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

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