Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

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.