“Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting untouched - just as a determination not to know serves the maker more than all the resources of clairvoyance - so there must be a minimum of ignorance in order to perfect a life in happiness. Those who lack such a thing must set about acquiring it: unintelligence must be earned.”

“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”

“We must live and let live in order to create what we are.”

“In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul”

“What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.”

“He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”