If the world were clear, art would not exist.

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

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