No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.
Albert CamusA character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
Albert CamusWhat, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.
Albert Camus