The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world — and to pay attention to man. - Albert Camus

When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.