Because you turned your despair into intoxication, because you freed yourself from it by making a principle of it, you are willing to destroy man's works and to fight him in order to add to his basic misery. I, on the contrary, choose justice in order to remain faithful to the world. This world has at leas the truth of man and our task is to provide its justification against fate itself, and it has no justification but man, hence, he must be saved if we want to save the idea we have of life. And with all my being I shout to you that I mean not mutilating him, and yet giving a chance to the justice that man alone can conceive. Now it becomes very clear I a comment like this that for Camus everything is projection.
Law is projection.
Religion is projection. Art is projection. These things exist only in so far as people define them. They are not part of a universal scheme of things which we simply have to plug into, but they are created by us and only we can define justice, love, art, in this world. That the moment people begin rejecting the mystification on which nihilism is based then hope is possible.