The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

I have a plan-to go mad.

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

Catch several hares and you won't catch one.