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.

Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

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

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

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.