Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. Votes: 6
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. Votes: 0
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. Votes: 0
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it. Votes: 0
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. Votes: 0
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. Votes: 0
A work of art is a confession. Votes: 0
Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything. Votes: 0
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. Votes: 0
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then. Votes: 0
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be. Votes: 0
A loveless world is a dead world. Votes: 0
One cannot be a part-time nihilist. Votes: 0
A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists. Votes: 0
I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive. Votes: 0
What is a rebel? A man who says no. Votes: 0
Without work all life goes rotten. Votes: 0
I rebel; therefore I exist. Votes: 0
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning. Votes: 0
It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence. Votes: 0
...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way... Votes: 0
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. Votes: 0
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. Votes: 0
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Votes: 0
One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Votes: 0
I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey. Votes: 0
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret. Votes: 0
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. Votes: 0
Integrity has no need of rules. Votes: 0
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it. Votes: 0
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are. Votes: 0
Find your happiness in yourself. Votes: 0
We are all special cases. Votes: 0
Art does not tolerate reason. Votes: 0
Morality, when formal, devours. Votes: 0
It is immoral not to tell. Votes: 0
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love. Votes: 0
None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself. Votes: 0
Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth. Votes: 0
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. Votes: 0
Life is the sum of your choices. Votes: 0
Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all. Votes: 0
Liberty is the right not to lie. Votes: 0
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. Votes: 0
The act of love is a confession. Votes: 0
Men die and they are not happy. Votes: 0
Fate is not in man but around him Votes: 0
Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring. Votes: 0
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. Votes: 0
With rebellion, awareness is born Votes: 0
The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less. Votes: 0
Without freedom there is no art. Votes: 0
A fate is not a punishment. Votes: 0
The soul of a murderer is blind Votes: 0
We are condemned to live together. Votes: 0
No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession. Votes: 0
In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting. Votes: 0
I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness. Votes: 0
The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture. Votes: 0
Obstinacy alone is not a virtue. Votes: 0
We all have a weakness for beauty. Votes: 0
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death. Votes: 0
...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered. Votes: 0
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him. Votes: 0
Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance. Votes: 0
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate. Votes: 0
Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears. Votes: 0
The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think. Votes: 0
We're all special cases. Votes: 0
This is the century of fear. Votes: 0
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence. Votes: 0
True artists scorn nothing. Votes: 0
In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live. Votes: 0
Liberty is dangerous. Votes: 0
The absurd is sin without God. Votes: 0
Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland Votes: 0
Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today. Votes: 0
Yes, I'm happy, in human terms. Votes: 0
In order to exist, man must rebel. Votes: 0
Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal. Votes: 0
Integrity needs no rules. Votes: 0
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. Votes: 0
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom. Votes: 0
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence. Votes: 0
At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary. Votes: 0
Don't let them tell us stories Votes: 0
It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear. Votes: 0
Murder is terribly exhausting. Votes: 0
There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. Votes: 0
I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl. Votes: 0
We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight. Votes: 0
Happiness too is inevitable. Votes: 0
No ends, simply means. Votes: 0
Give up the tyranny of female charm. Votes: 0