Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
In a moment, when I throw myself down among the absinthe plants to bring their scent into my body, I shall know, appearances to the contrary, that I am fulfilling a truth which is the sun's and which...
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept the...
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
It is better to burn than to disappear.
There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness. If they are happy by surprise, they find themselve...
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replaced normal religious practice...
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps.Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?Comprehension.
Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are myrevolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of
It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and...