580 quotes found
“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement it takes place every day.”
“The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.”
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
“Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.”
“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.”
“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
“Life is the sum of all your choices.”
“We are not certain we are never certain.”
“Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.”
“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
“This is the century of fear.”
“Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.”
“Psychology is action not thinking about oneself.”
“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.”
“To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.”
“We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.”
“The innocent is the person who explains nothing.”
“The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.”
“A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.”
“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage then to their disadvantage.”
