Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.