“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”

“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”

“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.”

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

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

“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”

“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognize...”

“I was at ease in everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. Each joy made me desire another. I went from festivity to festivity. On occasion I danced for nights on end, ev...”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”