My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so?

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.