We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.
When there is no hope, one must invent hope.
Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.