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

I know only one Church: it is the society of men.

With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.