He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.
Albert CamusA novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
Albert CamusTruth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.
Albert CamusFriendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.
Albert CamusWithout memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.
Albert Camus