"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."
"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
"Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable."
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer."
"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."