Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.

What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?

It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'