“It is the same thing: killing, dying, it is the same thing: one is just as alone in each. He is lucky, he will only die once. As for me, for ten days I have been killing him at every minute.”
Hugo to Jessica, on his plans to kill Hoederer, Act 5, sc. 2
Dirty Hands (1948)
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French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, sc… 1905–1980Related quotes

“Each man kills the things he loves.”
I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.
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Karna's promise to Kunti, in p. 233-34.
The God of Small Things

“A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.”
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As quoted in Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (2008), by Gail Bederman, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. p. 198.