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.

... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.

To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.

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

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.