“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”

“If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.”

“Good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”

“Integrity has no need of rules.”

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”

“A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.”

“All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.”

“All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.”

“What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”

“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him”

“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”

“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”

“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”

“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”

“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn’t desire is the hardest thing in the world.”

“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.”

“Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.”

“There is no frontier between being and appearing.”

“I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.”

“The absurd hero’s refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.”

“We rarely confide in those who are better than we. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don’t want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen.”

“I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.”

“We only know of one duty, and that is to love.”

“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”

“I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.”

“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”

“We are all special cases.”

“It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.”

“We are all born mad, some remain so.”

“An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.”

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

“I rebel; therefore I exist.”

“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”

“The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.”

“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.”

“Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.”

“I’ve seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don’t believe in heroism; I know it’s easy and I’ve learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.”

“Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.”

“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.”

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."

"An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement."

"Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."