"Men are never convinced of your reasons,..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”

“The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.”

“It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'”

“I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. That's more of your quills. I don't want a hide full, thanks. I have always figured that you die each day and and each day is a is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you have died a couple thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand.”

“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”

“Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.”

“In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.”

“Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.”

“Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.”