There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I’ve made up my mind to stick to the fact.

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key!