"That's the way man is, cher monsieur...." - Quote by Albert Camus

“Suffering gives us no special rights.”

“A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?”

“There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.”

“This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.”

“There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.”

“The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.”

“What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.”

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword”

“Of all the things that men may heed 'Tis most of love they sing indeed.”