If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.