Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
When there is no hope, one must invent hope.
But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.