"He was conscious of the disastrous fact..." - Quote by Albert Camus
He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.
More by Albert Camus
“To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?”
“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
“We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.”
More on Love
“Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But, either it was different in blood,- Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,- Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it.”
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
“That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.”
More on Desire
“If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.”
“But boys and girls, pale from the imagined loveOf solitary beds, knew what they were,That passion could bring character enoughAnd pressed at midnighht in some public placeLive lips upon a plummet-measured face.”
“A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.”