My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.