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- Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
- 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…
- The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own…
- Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
- Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
- The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
- Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the…
- Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our…
- The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies…
- 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…
- It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that,…
- 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…
- A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
- More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and…
- What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country,…
- Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
- ...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand,…
- But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while.…
- But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
- But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests…
- Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to…
- On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is…
- In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more…
- I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four…
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