580 quotes found
“Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.”
“I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine”
“In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think enough about pain" Albert Camus”
“Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.”
“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
“At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept ...”
“Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.”
“It is necessary to fall in love the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.”
“What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the pro...”
“In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.”
“But this time is ours, and we cannot live hating ourselves”
“What I'm sure of," he began, "is that you can't be happy without money. That's all. I don't like superficiality and I don't like romanticism. I like to be conscious. And what I've noticed is that t...”
“I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.”
“Every time a man (myself) gives way to vanity, every time he thinks and lives in order to show off, this is a betrayal. Every time, it has always been the great misfortune of wanting to show off wh...”
“When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has little left to learn.”
“Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.”
“He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by ...”
“Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.”
“There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules”
“I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.”
