"In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.”

“The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.”

“I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.”

“O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.”

“Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.”

“I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;And if I die no soul will pity me:And wherefore should they, since that I myselfFind in myself no pity to myself?”

“Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.”

“'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.”

“The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals”