"The only deep emotion I occasionally felt..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.”

“In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one’s thoughts be diverted by anything- by meals, by a fly that settles on one’s cheek, by household duties, or by a sudden itch somewhere. But there are always flies and itches. That’s why life is difficult to live.”

“I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.”

“Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.”

“I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own”

“Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.”

“We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us”

“All I am I owe to my mother.”

“Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.”