580 quotes found
“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
“Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true...”
“We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.”
“Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels.”
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
“Having money is a way of being free of money”
“Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the usual channels of friendship, letters, trains, ...”
“False judges are held up in the worlds admiration and I alone know the true ones.”
“He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human comm...”
“What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.”
“What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.”
“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
“But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.”
“The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and the sun. I knew that I ...”
“God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the Last Judgement. Allow me to laugh respectfully. I shall wait for it resolutely, ...”
“Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.”
“Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.”
“It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtl...”
“To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.”
“But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead,...”
