For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.

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

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

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art