Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.

When there is no hope, one must invent hope.

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.