What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.