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" Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. "

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" The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance. "

" The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. "

" Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me. "

" To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence? "

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

" Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. "

" Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much? "

" Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. "

" Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. "

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

" Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. "

" For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. "

" No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. "

Innocent People

" After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion. "

" To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. "

" I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up. "

" Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. "

" The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. "

" Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. "

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

" It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. "

" No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. "

" The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. "

" How hard, how bitter it is to become a man! "

" Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. "

" Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. "

" We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. "

" Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. "

" To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. "