Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.
I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.
There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.
Fate is not in man but around him
A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.
Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.
Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
Art does not tolerate reason.
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