Quotes · Skopia

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Novel · Philosophical literature

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all costs, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

The Fall · 1956

★ 1.9

Personal journal

Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.

1962

★ 1.9

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Love of Life · 1937

★ 2.0

What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport.

1979

★ 2.0

Essay · Philosophical literature

A law that is not just does not seem to me to be a law.

389

★ 2.2

Essay · Philosophical literature

Sisyphyus, proletarian of the gods, powerless and rebellious, knows the whole extent of his wretched condition: it is what he thinks of during his descent. The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

The Myth of Sisyphus · 1942

★ 3.6

Novel · Philosophical literature

I'll tell you a big secret mon cher. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

The Fall · 1956

★ 3.6

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

1944

★ 3.7

Essay · Political literature

When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning.

Reflections on the Guillotine · 1957

★ 3.7

Religious literature

Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself and there I searched for you.

Confessions · 400

★ 3.8

Essay · Philosophical literature

The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

The Myth of Sisyphus · 1942

★ 3.8

Essay · Philosophical literature

Integrity has no need of rules.

The Myth of Sisyphus · 1942

★ 3.8

Biography · Historical literature

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

52

★ 3.9

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

Hear the other side.

391

★ 3.9

Religious literature

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

Confessions · 400

★ 4.0

Novel · Philosophical literature

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

The Fall · 1956

★ 4.5

Essay · Philosophical literature · Political literature

Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.

The Rebel · 1951

★ 4.6

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

A people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love.

City of God · 426

★ 4.9

Novel · Political literature

It is not rebellion itself that is noble, but what it demands of you.

The Rebel · 1947

★ 5.4

Essay · Philosophical literature

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

The Myth of Sisyphus · 1942

★ 6.1

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