Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.