History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. --from The Light, That Never Dies

The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree the definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.