"There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it."

"I am alone, I am with no one; I am nothing."

"I burst out laughing at the thought of the face he would make. The Self-Taught Man looks at me with surprise. I'd like to stop but I can't; I laugh until I cry."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

"The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions … and without resignation either."