I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.

To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.