Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

The absurd is sin without God.

The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.