To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
To be or to become rich is to have time to be happy, if you deserve it.
To be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Those who weep for the happy periods they encounter in history acknowledge what they want: not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.
There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts…
There can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.
There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.
There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.
There are always reasons for murdering a man. On the contrary, it is impossible to justify his living. That’s why crime always finds lawyers, and innocence only rarely.
