Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Our purpose is to find out whether innocence, the moment it becomes involved in an action, can avoid committing murder.
She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.
Having money is a way of being free of money
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
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...
There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.
Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
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...
When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has little left to learn.
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...
Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.