"The most exhausting effort in my life..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.”

“Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.”

“How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.”

“I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.”

“The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.”

“The self is hateful.”

“The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.”

“You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made theirs. They sought for true success, and therefore they did not seek ease. They knew that success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor”

“He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.”