Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.