If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.

To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

Find your happiness in yourself.

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.