An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
Wounds from love, unlike wounds from bullets, do not kill anyone, but they also do not heal. Never.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love. First to their advantage and then to their disadvantage.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?
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.
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
The purpose of the writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me, just be my friend.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.
Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
Always go too far, because that's where you will find the truth.
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming - that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live
The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.
We are all born mad, some remain so.
I don't want to be a genius - i have enough problems just trying to be a man.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
I love life - that's my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
Before sex, do not tell a woman about your complexes.
Integrity has no need of rules.
Only happy love can prolong the youth of a mature man. Any other insanity turns him into an old man.
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Should i kill myself, or have a cup of coffee.
