...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.