When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.
Albert CamusAgainst eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
Albert CamusIf the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
Albert CamusIt would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.
Albert CamusIt is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
Albert CamusHe had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!
Albert Camus