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

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.