Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. [...] Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead.