There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

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

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.