Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

It is so.When YOU think so