"The Immoralist" Quotes

We are not free; we are not the masters of our own lives.

To be what I am. To live what I think.

I have never stopped trying to be a good person.

We are always responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself in Art and to count for nothing all but the hope of creating it.

I do not want to be happy; I want to live.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I am beginning to understand that a man can only do what he can, and cannot do what he wants.

I was not meant to live in peace and idleness.

There is no truth. There is only perception.