“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition.”
“It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal.”
“To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.”
“No one is more arrogant toward women than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity.”
“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
“Habit is a great deadener.”
“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”
“You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.”
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
“The paradox of education is precisely this—that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.”
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”