Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.