Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.