To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.