The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

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.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.