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There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.

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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

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There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

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A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

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