Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.