All 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 CamusI hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.
Albert CamusWe used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
Albert CamusBut what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.
Albert Camus