The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.