"The more I produce, the less I..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”

“If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.”

“Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.”

“No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.”

“When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.”

“We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.”

“A poet over 30 is pathetic”

“When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.”

“As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being.”