There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
From Albert Camus
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
For 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.
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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