An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

With rebellion, awareness is born

The absurd is sin without God.

There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.