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- More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything…
- How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was…
- Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
- I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
- 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…
- All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A…
- The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
- Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.
- He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even…
- What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the…
- Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with…
- Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the…
- One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
- This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.
- So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.
- What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never…
- Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
- The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon…
- The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes,…
- I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
- All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A…
- If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
- I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods…
- Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
- Art and revolt will die only with the last man.
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