A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.