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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

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

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved--and not the reverse.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

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

I don't want to be a genius--I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.

After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.