1. It is always easy to be logical.

It is almost impossible to be logical to the

bitter end.
2. We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In
that race which daily hastens us toward death the body maintains its
irreparable lead.
3. Schopenhauer is often cited, as a fit subject for laughter, because he praised
suicide while seated at a well-set table.
4. Reflection on suicide gives me an opportunity to raise the only problem to
interest me: is there a logic to the point of death? I cannot know unless I
pursue.
5. It is probably true that a man remains forever unknown to us and that there
is in him something irreducible that escapes us.
6. a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere
impulses
7. the last pages of a book are already contained in the first pages
8. everything begins with consciousness and nothing is worth anything except
through it [jenahong namritasyam…..]
9. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what
is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for
clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.
10.The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human longing for
happiness and for reason and the unreasonable silence of the world. The
Absurd is not in man (if such a metaphor could have a meaning) nor in the
world, but in their presence together. For the moment it is the only bond
uniting them. It is a confrontation and an unceasing struggle.
11.A man is always a prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot
free himself from them.
12.“The only true solution,” Chestov said, “is precisely where human
judgment sees no solution. Otherwise, what need would we have of God?
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible. As for the possible, men
suffice.”
13.The greatness of God is his incoherence. His proof is his inhumanity. One
must spring into him and by this leap free oneself from rational illusions.
(Chestov)