The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

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

I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.