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Human condition Quotes

"Suffering is civilization"

"The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation."

"We are condemned to be free."

"What is there that is too dirty, too sordid, too depressing to be read about or spoken of? If literature cannot deal with the grimy underbelly of life, then what is it for?"

"Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?"

"Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life."

"Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny"

"No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth."

"People have a basic need for meaning, purpose, and direction in life"

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

"Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own bad memories"

"Life is wasted on the living."

"Reader, memory inevitably fails you."

"All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in"

"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"

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