I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.
The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.