What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.
...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time.