The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.
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.
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
It is easier to kill what we do not know.
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.
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.
You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us
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.
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.
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.
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.
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.
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.
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.
From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.
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.
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.
A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.
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