One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.