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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly witho...  
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.  
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.  
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the ...  
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciou...  
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to...  
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place ...  
After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most drea...  
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a maste...  
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.   Age
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Gr...   Art
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of t...  
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.  
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays,...  
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the ex...  
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in th...  
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.   Nature
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute t...  
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the ...  
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a poli...  
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear questi...  
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.  
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. A...  
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.  
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may...  
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heret...  
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refine...  
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in...  
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.  
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at a...  
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last j...  
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out t...   Religion
If there is sin against life, it consistsÉ in hoping for another life ...  
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again ...  
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left beh...  
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invin...   Nature
Integrity has no need of rules.  
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be...  
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose ...  
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be ...  
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifie...  
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on lo...  
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.  
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dic...  
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or ...  
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousne...  
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: th...  
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the na...  
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be...  
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.  
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-v...  
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant ...  
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.  
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.  
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by def...  
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.  
That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.  
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.  
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can s...  
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and go...  
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the t...  
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itsel...  
The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy....  
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably...  
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.  
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their ...  
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.  
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.  
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's hear...  
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the...  
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suici...  
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.  
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or i...  
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history a...  
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have c...  
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an ...  
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from socie...  
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.  
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery...  
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is ...  
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.  
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.  
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall tr...  
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful ...  
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principl...  
We are all special cases.  
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.  
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselve...  
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking...  
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue...  
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and ...  
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even wh...  
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes o...   Art
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life st...  
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you gen...  
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.  
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without havi...  
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness c...   Life
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously c...