Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or donโt find meaning but โstealโ some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesnโt make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.
Albert CamusTo assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert CamusTo cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
Albert Camus