We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time.

There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.