I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from… - Albert Camus

I rebel; therefore I exist.

To have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.