Je ne suis ni le maître ni l'esclave, Jupiter. Je suis ma liberté! À peine m'as-tu créé que j'ai cessé de t'appartenir
J'ai envie de partir, de m'en aller quelque part où je serais vraiment à ma place, où je m'emboîterais... Mais ma place n'est nulle part; je suis de trop.
It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.
From the very fact, indeed, that I am conscious of the motives which solicit my action, these motives are already transcendent objects from my consciousness, they are outside; in vain shall I seek to...
A man rarely feels like laughing alone.
But I can't see anything any more: however much I search the past I can only retrieve scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, nor whether they are remembered or invented.
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
والحق أن قتل معنويات أمة لا يتأتى أولا بتحطيم معنوياتها وإنما يكون بإنحطاط أخلاقها
One cannot hate a man more than one can love him. The
You are -- your life, and nothing else.
With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
Thus pleasure itself, also becoming a right, lost its aggressive futility.
The existentialist, on the contrary, finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. There can no lo...
She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: It shines like a little diamond,What does?This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.
Reflection poisons desire.
Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
Once Right has taken hold of a man exorcism cannot drive it out.
I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.