Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.