The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
Existence is illusory and it is eternal.
How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?