"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."
"What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly."
"Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it."
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
"Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable."
"It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway."