There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute.

Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.

Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.

But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.