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Solely in this sense Jesus indeed personifies the whole human drama. He is the complete man, being the one who realized the most absurd condition. He is not the God-man but the man-god. And, like him, each of us can be crucified and victimized – and is to a certain degree.

-Pg. 104

Loving and possessing, conquering and consuming – that is his (Don Juan) way of knowing.

-Pg. 73

I said that the world is absurd but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of the irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.

-Pg. 20

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.