"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. So it is with absurdity. The absurd world more than other derives its nobility from the abject birth."

"Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it."

"The mind's first step is to distinguish what is true from what is false. However, as soon as thought reflects on itself, what it first discovers is a contradiction."

"In reality there is no experience of death. Properly speaking, nothing has been experienced but what has been lived and made conscious."

"Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place."

"There is scarcely any passion without struggle."

"For conscience moves swiftly or withdraws within itself. It has to be caught on the wing, at that barely perceptible moment when it glances fleetingly at itself."

"A single truth, if it is obvious, is enough to guide an existence."

"Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage."