How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.