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

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

Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

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