We have art in order not to die of life.
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.
A loveless world is a dead world.
Having money is a way of being free of money.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.
[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.
Liberty is the right not to lie.
When the body is sad, the heart languishes.
A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.
My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
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