The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.