Thus to get the princess, to live
with her joyfully and happily day in and day out (for it is also conceivable that the knight of resignation might get the princess, but that his soul had discerned the impossibility of their future
happiness), thus to live joyfully and happily every
instant by virtue of the absurd, every
instant to see the sword hanging over the head of the beloved, and yet to find repose in the pain of resignation, but joy by virtue of the absurd — this is marvelous.