The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.
The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.
Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.
Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs.
Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.
I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.
There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.
In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.
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