Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.