The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
Albert CamusSo the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
Albert CamusWe are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
Albert CamusThe Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.
Albert Camus