Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.