"A novel is never anything but a..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.”

“It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.”

“Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.”

“We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.”

“[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.”

“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.”

“Some people say that less is more. But I think more is more.”

“Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.”

“The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.”