Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.

Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.

…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved

This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

The absurd is sin without God.