Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

The absurd is sin without God.

To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.