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.

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

Don't let them tell us stories.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

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.