It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.