We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future --and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as natüre.
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
You can't create experience. You must undergo it.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Integrity has no need of rules.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
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