I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time.