Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
Liberty is the right not to lie.
Nothing in life is worth turning your back on if you love it.
I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.
I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future – and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.
For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.
To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.