Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
A fate is not a punishment.
But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.