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

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.

No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.