"As a remedy to life in society..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.”

“It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.”

“The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.”

“Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men”

“The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.”

“Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.”

“The sewer is the conscience of the city.”

“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”