We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

We haven't the time to take out time.

Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.