In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.
Albert CamusThe work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
Albert CamusIt is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
Albert CamusBelieve me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.
Albert Camus