Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher... - Albert Camus

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer."

"It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway."