The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

The absurd is sin without God.

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.