Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.
We are all special cases.
Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.
Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
Art does not tolerate reason.
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.
The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.
Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.
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.
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.
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