If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing