It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.