Daily quote |
Albert CamusAlas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. |