The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'

Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.

I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.