Pauvre et libre plutôt que riche et asservi. Bien entendu les hommes veulent être et riches et libres et c'est ce qui les conduit quelquefois à être … - Albert Camus

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate. There is a universe of jealousy, of ambition, of selfishness or generosity. A universe — in other words a metaphysic and an attitude of mind.

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.