The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

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

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.