I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.

Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

Why must one love rarely to love well?

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.