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A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.
Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.
We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.
... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.
... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.
[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.