The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.

You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

What, 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.