There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.