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

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

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.

The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.