Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them,... - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."

"A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end."

"What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying."

"A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future."

"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."