Ashraqa Tauheed

“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

“Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in daily fidelity.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

“To correct a natural indifference, I was placed halfway between poverty and the sun. Poverty kept me from thinking all was well under the sun and in history; the sun taught me that history was not everything.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

“Young women looking after a children's summer camp, the ice-cream vendor's horn (his cart is a gondola on wheels, pushed by two handles), the displays of fruit, red melons with black pips, translucent, sticky grapes -- all are props for the person who can no longer be alone. [1] But the cicadas' tender and bitter chirping, the perfume of water and stars one meets on September nights, the scented paths among the lentisks and the rosebushes, all these are signs of love for the person forced to be alone. [2]

[1] That is to say, everybody.
[2] That is to say, everybody.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays