If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.

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

To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.

Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.