You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

Integrity has no need of rules.

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.