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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.
Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.
There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.
Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.
Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.
The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.
He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.
But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved
If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.
Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.
I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.
The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.
History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.