...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.
Albert CamusAll men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
Albert CamusMaman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.
Albert CamusWhen I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.
Albert Camus