 It is only in our decisions that we are important. |
| God is absence. God is the solitude of man. |
| Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. |
| I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. |
| My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking. |
| As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. |
| What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me. |
| Life begins on the other side of despair. |
| I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. |
| Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. |
| Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think. |
| Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. |
| If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically. |
| If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. |
| Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. |
| The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. |
| Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. |
| Hell is other people. |
| She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. |
| Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away. |
