Quote #154
In certain men, the fire of eternity consuming them is great enough for them to burn in it the very heart of those closest to them.
More from Albert Camus
- If something worth living for is worth dying for, what about something not worth dying for?
- In my case, I have always drawn my hope from the idea of fecundity.
- If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
- In our daily trials rebellion plays the same role as does the 'cogito' in the realm of thought: it is the first piece of evidence. But this…
- If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism…
- In the difficult hour we are living, what else can I desire than to exclude nothing and to learn how to braid with white thread and black t…
- If our age admits, with equanimity, that murder has its justifications, it is because of this indifference to life which is the mark of nih…
- In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing…