Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.

There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.

The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.

We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.