Why must one love rarely to love well?

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.

My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.