Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.