For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
