“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.”

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

We are all born mad, some remain so.

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.