The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroy... - Albert Camus

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

"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."

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day."

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."