This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.