After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.