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Tenacity and acumen are privileged spectators of this inhuman show in which absurdity, hope, and death carry on their dialogue.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.
That nostalgia for unity, that appetite for the absolute illustrates the essential impulse of the human drama.
how shall I negate this world whose power and strength I feel?
I realize that if through science I can seize phenomena and enumerate them, I cannot, for all that, apprehend the world.
The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter—these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is capable.
The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.
that a man is always a prey to his truths.
His proof is his inhumanity.
Thus it is that, through a strained subterfuge, he gives the irrational the appearance and God the attributes of the absurd: unjust, incoherent, and incomprehensible.
the absurd is sin without God.
But, like suicides, gods change with men.
What can its assertions mean in the absurd world? The perception of an angel or a god has no meaning for me. That geometrical spot where divine reason ratifies mine will always be incomprehensible to me. There, too, I discern a leap, and though performed in the abstract, it nonetheless means for me forgetting just what I do not want to forget.
