“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

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

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Live to the point of tears.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

Indifference is a quarantined difference.

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.