All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.

When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.