For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

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

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.