“In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.”
“Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.”
“God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.”
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.”
“There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day.”
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.”
“The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.”
“It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.”
“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”
“Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.”
“A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.”
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”
“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”
“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”
“Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.”
“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.”
“There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.”
“If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.”
“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.”
“Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.”
“To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.”
“The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.”
“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.”
“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.”
“If there is sin against life, it consists, in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
“From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.”