O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert CamusWhat the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
Albert CamusTo correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
Albert CamusYou know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.
Albert CamusEvery time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the peopleโs anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble โ yes, gamble โ with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.
Albert Camus