The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
We are condemned to live together.
Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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.
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.
After awhile you could get used to anything.
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.
It is easier to kill what we do not know.
I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3
If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.
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.
There is no shame in preferring happiness.
Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Some are created to love, while the others - to live.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
When there is no hope, one must invent hope.
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