I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.

Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.