"I hadn't understood how days could be..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“There is no frontier between being and appearing.”

“…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.”

“It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.”

“I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.”

“Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.”

“A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.”

“'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.”

“I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.”

“The older you get, the more you learn to see what you've been taught to see. When you're a kid, you see what's there.”