... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Fate is not in man but around him

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.