The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

Life is the sum of your choices.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.