If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.