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On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

But this time is ours, and we cannot live hating ourselves

Even men without a gospel have their Mount of Olives. And one must not fall asleep on theirs either.

Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

Even the sea had lost its deep blue colour and, beneath the misty sky, took on the sheen of silver or iron, making it painful to look at.

Ah, this dear old planet! All is clear now. We know ourselves; we now know of what we are capable.

In the middle of Winter I discovered within myself an invincible Summer.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

When he rebels, a man
identifies himself with other men and so surpasses himself, and from this point of view human solidarity
is metaphysical.

Doubts are the innermost corner of our souls. One must not talk about his doubts, whatever they may be.

Don't let them tell us stories

In those quiet places where my heart once spoke to yours ... I breathed eternal summer.

Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

The soul of a murderer is blind

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

The anachronism is the worst thing to use at the theatre.

Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer).

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

Life is the sum of your choices.

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

We're all special cases.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

History is distinguished
from nature precisely by the fact that it transforms science and passion by means of will.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

When the time to die comes, it does not matter how and when it happens.

I have never seen anyone die for the ontological argument.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

I rebel - therefore we exist

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

A loveless world is a dead world.

He wanted to diminish the surface he offered the world, to sleep until everything was consumed.

Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.

The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Mind you, do not think that my affection for you is blind. You have great, very great faults, at least in my eyes.

When there is no hope, one must invent hope.

A work of art is a confession.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.

the means one uses today shape the ends one might perhaps reach tomorrow

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

We all have a weakness for beauty.

All is well, everything is permitted, and nothing is hateful - these are absurd judgments

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

Liberty is dangerous.

They were assured, of course, of the inerrable equality of death, but nobody wanted that kind of equality.

Become so very free that your whole existence is an act of rebellion.

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognizes his worst enemy.

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

I was feeling very comfortable; the coffee had warmed me up, and through the open door came scents of flowers and breaths of cool night air.

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

How intoxicating to feel like God the Father and to hand out definitive testimonials of bad character and habits.

But perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

There are very few large and many poor feelings in everyone's life.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Style, like poplin, all too often conceals eczema.

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.

It would be the most peaceful to love in silence, but there are consciousness and personality, so we have to speak. And then love becomes hell.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Atheism is humanism mediated by the suppression of religion, communism is humanism mediated by
the suppression of private property.

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all.

Friendship is not so easy: it's long and hard to win, but when it's there, you can't get rid of it, you have to made do

I would like to be able to breathe - to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.

People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.

With rebellion, awareness is born

Whether the earth or the sun revolves around the other is a matter of profound indifference.

All normal people, I added as an after thought, had more or less desired the death of those they loved, at some point or another.

Maybe Christ died for somebody but not for me.

[E]verything contributes to spreading confusion.

There was a worried little smile on her face. But my heart felt nothing, and I couldn't even return her smile.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.