Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can be… - Albert Camus

What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate. There is a universe of jealousy, of ambition, of selfishness or generosity. A universe — in other words a metaphysic and an attitude of mind.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.