But perhaps the the great work of art has less importance in itself than in the ordeal it demands of a man and the opportunity it provides him of overcoming his phantoms and approaching a little closer to his naked reality.

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good n…”

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”

“Here I understand what is meant by glory: the right to love without limits.”

“Rieux knew what the old man was thinking at that moment as he wept, and he thou…”