'You've become damned fatalistic!' he said.

'No, I don't say that action in general is impossible. It is just now, for us.'

'I read your book,' Henri said. 'All in all, you think it's possible to do something only by going along unconditionally with the Communists.'

'Yes. It isn't that their position is striking, but the fact is that, besides them, there's nothing.'

'And yet you're not going along with them.'

'I can't remake myself,' Dubreuilh said. 'Their revolution is too unlike the one I used to hope for. I was wrong; unfortunately, you can't suddenly become someone else simply by realizing your errors. You're young; you still might be capable of making the leap. Not I.'