Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Who taught you all this, doctor?"The reply came promptly:"Suffering.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
Life is the sum of all your choices.
Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
...since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might against death, without raising our eyes towards the hea...
Freedom, that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm, is the motivating principle of all revolutions. Without it, justice seems inconceivable to the rebel's mind. There comes a time, howe...
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.