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

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.

Life is the result of all your choices.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.