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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. - Author object (125)

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. - Author object (125)

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests. - Author object (125)

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. - Author object (125)

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été. - Author object (125)

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep - Author object (125)

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer. - Author object (125)

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. - Author object (125)

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold. - Author object (125)

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. - Author object (125)

The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind. - Author object (125)

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there. - Author object (125)

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. - Author object (125)

Friendship is less simple. It is long and hard to obtain but when one has it there's no getting rid of it; one simply has to cope with it. Don't think for a minute that your friends will telephone you every evening, as they ought to, in order to find out if this doesn't happen to be the evening when you are deciding to commit suicide, or simply whether you don't need company, whether you are not in the mood to go out. No, don't worry, they'll ring up the evening you are not alone, when life is beautiful. As for suicide, they would be more likely to push you to it, by virtue of what you owe to yourself, according to them. May heaven protect us, cher Monsieur, from being set upon a pedestal by our friends! - Author object (125)

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. - Author object (125)

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. - Author object (125)

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself. - Author object (125)

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it. - Author object (125)

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. - Author object (125)

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. - Author object (469)