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" The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves. "

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" The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. "

" A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. "

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

" Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. "

" The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. "

" Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles. "

" Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. "

" The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. "

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

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

" You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. "

" I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. "

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

" How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. "

" As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. "

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

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

" The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. "

" All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. "

" 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. "

" We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I. "

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