Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.