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

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" Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. "

" Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it. "

" No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. "

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

" 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. "

" The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer. "

" Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. "

" Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. "

" I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. "

" To be happy we must not be too concerned with others. "

" The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. "

" Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. "

" 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. "

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

" Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself. "

" Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. "

" We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. "

" We call first truths those we discover after all the others. "

" The society based on production is only productive, not creative. "

" Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. "

" The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other. "

" We are all special cases. "

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

" A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. "

" Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified. "

" Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself. "

" The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. "