When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.
We have art in order not to die of life.
A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.
A loveless world is a dead world.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Having money is a way of being free of money.
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