There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.
If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.
And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.