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“my sensuality (to limit myself to it) was so real that even for a ten-minute adventure I'd have disowned father and mother, even were I to regret it bitterly. Nay - especially for a ten-minute adventure and even more so if I were sure it was to have no sequel. I had principles, to be sure, such as that the wife of a friend is sacred. But I simply ceased quite sincerely, a few days before, to feel any friendship for the hus band. Maybe I ought not to call this sensuality ? Sen suality is not repulsive. Let's be indulgent and use the word infirmity, a sort of congenital inability to see in love anything but the physical.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays

“You know what charm is : a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays

“Martyrs. cher ami, must choose between being for gotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood never !”
― Albert Camus, The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays

“Any government that gets to be too big and too successful gets to be a nuisance.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Between Planets