Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so?

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.