Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.