The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Read Summary
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Read Summary
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never. Read Summary
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. Read Summary
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. Read Summary
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Read Summary
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Read Summary
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. Read Summary
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. Read Summary
I know of only one duty, and that is to love. Read Summary
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. Read Summary
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. Read Summary
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. Read Summary
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. Read Summary
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. Read Summary
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. Read Summary
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. Read Summary
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. Read Summary
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. Read Summary
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Read Summary