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

"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."

"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool."

"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."

"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."

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