Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.
This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.
The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.
I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.
I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.
The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.
I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.
Two people can form a community by excluding a third.
All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.
Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the value of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.
It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God’s finger crushes against the wall.
All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
Man is the being whose project it is to be God.
The status of ‘native’ is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.
Il n’y a pas d’autre univers qu’un univers humain, l’univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.
One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.
What is not possible is not to choose.