Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.

Liberty is dangerous.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.

Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.