Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.
Albert CamusYou will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert CamusHe knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
Albert CamusPeople believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.
Albert CamusThere are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
Albert CamusIn that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.
Albert Camus