The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, is...
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Live to the point of tears.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to...
... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.
The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.