One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

We're all special cases.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.

The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.