"What is a firm hand to me,..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

“No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.”

“To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.”

“What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know”

“I worked with patience which means almost power.”

“We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.”

“You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.”

“Little boats should keep near shore”

“How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.”