One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

The absurd is sin without God.

But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.