"The innocent is the person who explains..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”

“For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.”

“Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.”

“And in the morn and liquid dew of youth,Contagious blastments are are most imminent.”

“Youth holds no society with grief.”

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”

“Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.”

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”