After awhile you could get used to anything.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

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.

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.