MCTG

“What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?"
"I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps."
"Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?"
"Comprehension.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Since there was nothing at all I was certain of, since I needed to be provided at every instant with a new confirmation of my existence, since nothing was in my very own, undoubted, sole possession, determined unequivocally only by me — in sober truth a disinherited son — naturally I became unsure even of the thing nearest to me, my own body.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“I was very fond of you, but now I’m so, so tired. I’m not happy to go, but one needn't be happy to make another start.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!”
― Albert Camus, The Plague