The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.