That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.
Albert CamusAnd indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.
Albert CamusWhoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
Albert CamusI can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.
Albert Camus