Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth-with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishioners and has heard a man gasping for breath on his deathbed thinks as I do. He'd try to relieve human suffering before trying to point out its goodness.
Albert CamusEven when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.
Albert CamusNihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
Albert CamusBeauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus