"I was absent at the moment I..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.”

“It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”

“The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.”

“Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.”

“The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.”

“When you are aligned with the now internally, when you take responsibility for this moment, then life is helpful and tends to bring you what you need.”

“Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder”

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”