

“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
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“Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.”
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“Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?”
― Introduction to Metaphysics
― Introduction to Metaphysics

“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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