Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.