I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Don't let them tell us stories.

To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.