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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

We are all special cases.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

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.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

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