None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.

I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.

Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.