Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.