You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.