He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadva… - Albert Camus

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

When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.