How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.