"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."

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."

"The greatest crime is not to commit a crime, but to hide it."

"The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions."

"There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night."