Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.