I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.