"

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

"

If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur...more

"

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

"

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

"

We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more to peoples poi...more

"

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness. ...more

"

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

"

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

"

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. ButSisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and r...more

"

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.

"

Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting untouched—just as a determination not to k...more

"

Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with...more

"

What I'm sure of," he began, "is that you can't be happy without money. That's all. I don't like superficiality and I don't like romanticism. I like t...more

"

For him, too, starting over, departures, a new life had a certain luster, but he knew that only the impotent and the lazy attach happiness to such thi...more

"

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.