The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.

Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.