I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.

I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.