A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

The soul of a murderer is blind

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.