In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}

I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.