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Ce que, finalement, je sais de plus sûr sur la morale et les obligations des hommes, c'est au football que je le dois.
I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (1960)
A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.
Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)
Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took up arms for her.
Helen's Exile (1948)
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
A man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
It happens as well that the feeling of the absurd springs from happiness.
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
"My field," said Goethe, "is time." That is indeed the absurd speech.
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
You needn't await the Final Judgment. It takes place every day.
The Fall (1956)
Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
The Fall (1956)
Such a monster is not to be encountered in private life.
Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)
Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.
The Rebel (1951)
I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.
The Rebel (1951)
Everybody was privileged. There were only privileged people.
The Stranger (1942)
The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically, expresses an aspiration for order.
The Rebel (1951)
La fiction est le mensonge par lequel nous dison la vérité. (Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.)
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.