I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I've looked away and never could look people straight in the eye.

To cook your hare you must first catch it.

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

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

Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

Hell is the inability to love.