Albert Camus

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

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

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.