"The essential thing is to be free, free, free. To be free for life and for death."

"The only way to overcome the absurd is to live it."

"Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and as a result man is abandoned, because he cannot find anything to depend on within or outside himself."

"What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never use it for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one …"

"Every anti-communist is a dog."