The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

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

O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.