And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

Find your happiness in yourself.

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.