At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

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

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

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

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.