Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
If, after all, man cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
This is the century of fear.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainly of the worst.
Life is the sum of all your choices.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
We are not certain, we are never certain.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Don't wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
Politics, and the face of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.
As remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless.
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.
There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities... And above all, accept these things.
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.
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