"Those who weep for the happy periods..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.”

“I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.”

“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”

“If misery loves company, misery has company enough.”

“...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables”

“Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.”

“I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.”

“The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.”

“We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.”