Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.