The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.