The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.