"We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and in others."

"The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world."

"The greatest luxury of our lives is to be able to wake up in the morning and not have to think about how we are going to survive."

"The only real progress is moral progress."

"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."