He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he w... - Albert Camus

"Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?"

"Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it."

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."

"Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?"

"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."