Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. – Albert Camus
If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. – Albert Camus
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure. – Albert Camus
Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. – Albert Camus