You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert CamusAfter all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
Albert CamusOne dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.
Albert CamusIt should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.
Albert Camus