At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

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.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.