The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves. – Albert Camus
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. – Albert Camus
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. – Albert Camus
Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship to practically everything else in order to prove that language is so inordinately complicated that it is impossible in principle for people to talk. – Ronald W. Langacker (b.1942), Language and Its Structure, 1973