In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this...
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn...
In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that un...
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement it takes place every day.
he doesn't play the game ... He refuses to lie. 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 human heart, saying more than...
Don't let them tell us stories
Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country … we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the prote...
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.