“I mean,” she said, “that you have an empty life. No pattern. And nothing in you to give you any purpose. Most people can’t help following some kind of design. They do it automatically because it’s in their nature. It’s that that saves them, pulls them up short. They can’t help themselves. But you’re safe from being saved.”

Rattaché à tort au mouvement existentialiste, qui atteint son apogée au lendemain de la guerre, Albert Camus écrit en fait une œuvre articulée autour de l'absurde et de la révolte.

the struggles in which men seek to preserve their self-respect by justifying their blameworthy actions to themselves.

Without immortality there is no moral accountability, and your moral choices become inconsequential.

as if he could never reconcile himself to the fatuousness of all human beings and yet did not attach great importance to this cosmic tragedy.