I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so?

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively little; or, rather, that love is never strong enough to find the words befitting it. Thus he and his mother would always love each other silently. And one day she--or he--would die, without ever, all their lives long, having gone farther than this by way of making their affection known.