In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.

the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}

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

But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.