Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
Albert CamusThey hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.
Albert CamusWhat gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.
Albert CamusIt is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
Albert CamusHolland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.
Albert Camus