And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.

To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.

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

The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.