I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

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.

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.