For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.

This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.