It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is the human community. Or one dissents totally from their system of ideas and stands as a lonely human being. (But luckily one notices that the others are in the same crisis and making the same choices.)

Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society (ed. New York Review of Books, 2011) - ISBN: 9781590175965