If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them … they could perceive what they have made of us.
I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
In a moment, when I throw myself down among the absinthe plants to bring their scent into my body, I shall know, appearances to the contrary, that I am fulfilling a truth which is the sun's and which...
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are myrevolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of
Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.
Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.
It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and...
I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home...
Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or...
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand th...
Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So wh...
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.