“It has no importance whether such things have or have not a meaning; all we need consider is the answer given to men’s hope.”

Albert Camus, The Plague (via anabantoids)

“Faced with this misery, he who lived almost as a monk in this lost school, content for that matter with the little he had, and with this rough life, had felt like a king, with his rendered walls, his narrow couch, his white wooden shelves, his wells, and his weekly provisions of water and food. And, all of a sudden, this snow, without warning, without the soothing rain before it. The land was as such, hard to live with, even without the men, who didn’t better anything for that matter. But Daru was born there. Everywhere else, he felt himself exiled.”

Albert Camus, The Guest (via citrons-doux)

“Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.”

Albert Camus - The Plague (via restaurer)

“In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.”

Albert Camus (via luniversale)

“You always get exaggerated notions of things you don’t know anything about. I was made to see that contrary to what I thought, everything was very simple: the guillotine is on the same level as the man approaching it. He walks up to it the way you walk up to another person.”

Albert Camus, The Stranger (via excessioncompression)

“She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn’t mean anything but that I didn’t think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.”

Albert Camus (The Stranger)

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