“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”

“In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all.”

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

“When a conscious being appeared, the world went blank.”

“So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.”

“This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.”

“All facts are. In a world where everythingis given and nothing is explained, the fecundity of a value or of ametaphysic is a notion devoid of meaning.”