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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.

Individuality Quotes

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still.

Firsts Quotes

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

Intelligence Quotes

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Valentines day Quotes

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

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.

Happiness Quotes

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I’d killed a man.

People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.

I’m filled with a desire for clarity and meaning within a world and condition that offers neither.

We don’t have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

T HERE is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest – whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories – comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

The absurd man catches sight of a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given, and beyond which all is collapse and nothingness. He can then decide to accept such a universe and draw from it his strength, his refusal to hope, and the unyielding evidence of a life without consolation.

In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though he thinks he is serving it. From this point of view, we shall deny to the very end that a press is true because it is revolutionary; it will be revolutionary only if it is true, and never otherwise.

To state quite simply what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.

Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

He had been bored, that’s all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen – and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

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

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

To create is to live twice.

Fate is not in man but around him.

My dear friend, we mustn’t give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Firsts Quotes

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

To lose one’s life is no great matter; when the time comes I’ll have the courage to lose mine. But what’s intolerable is to see one’s life being drained of meaning, to be told there’s no reason for existing. A man can’t live without some reason for living.

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.

This is the century of fear.

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It’s a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

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