Integrity has no need of rules.
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.