Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.
A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.
And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.
If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.