There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

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

Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.

It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.