You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters โ all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success โ is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.
Albert CamusI've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
Albert CamusPerhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.
Albert CamusBeware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.
Albert CamusTo abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Albert Camus