I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds – a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents.
And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.
You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you fail, it means you were too lazy.
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.
Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.
That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It’s a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.
To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
Men who have greatness within them don’t go in for politics.
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.