23 quotes found
“If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it. ”
“What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.”
“I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.”
“I simply took refuge among women. As you know, they don't really condemn any weakness; they would be more inclined to try to humiliate or disarm our strength. This is why woman is the reward, not o...”
“I sometimes try to imagine what future historians will say about us. They'll be able to sum up modern man in a single sentence: he fornicated and read the papers. After that robust description, I s...”
“Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself.So, this was me, getting over myself. And it was about time.”
“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...”
“On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that ...”
“This is why it is not true that culture can be, even temporarily, suspended in order to make way for a new culture. Mans unbroken testimony as to his suffering and his nobility cannot be suspended;...”
“Don't lies in the end put us on the path to truth? And don't my stories, true or false, point to the same conclusion? Don't they have the same meaning? So, what does it matter whether they are true...”
“How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!”
“We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.”
“Every writer on this planet THINKS he is a great writer (why waste your entire life writing when you believe you are mediocre?) but its deemed socially unacceptable to actually speak out such thoug...”
“The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Weste...”
“One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.”
“If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.”
