If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.
Albert CamusBeing is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
Albert CamusThe nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
Albert Camushow hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!
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