The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt (Vintage International)

by Albert Camus

They choose, and give us as an example the only original rule of life today: to learn to live and to die, and, in order to be a man, to refuse to be a god.

At this meridian of thought, the rebel thus rejects divinity in order to share in the struggles and destiny of all men.

In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we;

at this moment when at last a man is born, it is time to forsake our age and its adolescent furies.