Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the refrain of my whole life, which could be heard in everything I said. I could never talk without boast...
Everything is true, and nothing is true!
After awhile you could get used to anything.
The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.
We do not have feelings which change us, but feelings that suggest to us the idea of change. Thus love does not purge us of selfishness, but makes us aware of it and gives us the idea of a distant cou...
There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
همیشه روزهایی هست که انسان در آن کسانی را که دوست داشته است، بیگانه می یابد
Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.
People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnif...
And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.