J’existe. C’est doux, si doux, si lent. Et léger: on dirait que ça tient en l’air tout seul. Ça remue. Ce sont des effleurements partout qui fondent et s’évanouissent. Tout doux, tout doux.
Je pense, lui dis-je, que nous voilà, tous tant que nous sommes, à manger et à boire pour conserver notre précieuse existence et qu’il n’y a rien, rien, aucune raison d’exister… L’autodidacte répondit...
Il n’y a de réalité que dans l’action… [L’être humain] n’existe que dans la mesure où il se réalise, il n’est donc rien d’autre que sa vie
INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It’s what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.INEZ: One always dies...
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
I see the future. It is there, poised over the street, hardly more dim than the present. What advantage will accrue from its realisation? The old woman stumps further and further away, she stops, pull...
I go to the window, I spot a fly under the curtain, I corner it in a muslin trap and move a murderous forefinger toward it. This moment is not in the program, it's something apart, timeless, incompara...
I get up. I move through this pale light; I see it change beneath my hands and on the sleeves of my coat: I cannot describe how much it disgusts me.
Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said, is a revolutionary sentiment.
General ideas are more flattering. And then professionals and even amateurs always end up by being right
All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.'I should myself have thought,' said Jacques, 'that freedom consisted in frankly...
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
لا يمكن أن أدلل على حقيقة عاطفتى وكلامى إلا إذا مارست ذلك فعلاً.
تو کیستی که به من امر میکنی؟ و شما چه احتیاجی به شنیدن اوامر او دارید؟ هیچکس حق ندارد به شما امر کند مگر روسایی که خودتان انتخاب کردهاید.
What summits would I not reach if my own life made the subject of the melody.
Emotion is first of all and in principle an accident
You are -- your life, and nothing else.
Undoubtedly, on his death bed, at that moment when, ever since Socrates, it has been proper to pronounce certain elevated words, he told his wife, as one of my uncles told his, whohad watched beside h...
Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse et meurt par rencontre.
This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.