Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.