Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

Everybody knows life isn't worth living.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.