From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.