Man is free rather than man is freedom.
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.
People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.
The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think...and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment, it's frightful, if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I...
Her eyes stare at me but she seems not to see me; she looks as though she were lost in her suffering.
Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical e...
Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out.
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
Hell is—other people!
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good co...