When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.