The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.