I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Integrity needs no rules.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?