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The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us

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