Eftychia

“When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardour and that illumination.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“Why love the healthy, confident, proud and happy?They don't need it. They take love as their rightful due, as the duty owed to them, they accept it indifferently and arrogantly. Other people's devotion is just another gift to them, a clasp to wear in the hair, a bangle for the wrist, not the whole meaning and happiness of their lives. Love can truly help only those not favoured by fate, the distressed and disadvantaged, those who are less than confident and not beautiful, the meek-minded. When love is given to them it makes up for what life has taken away. They alone know how to love and be loved in the right way, humbly and with gratitude.”
― Stefan Zweig

“I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Zadie Smith

“From Pandora's box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays