Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd
The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.
Life is the sum of your choices.
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.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.
The innocent is the person who explains nothing
There is no shame in preferring happiness.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
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