“Living with one’s passions amounts to living with one’s sufferings, which are the counterpoise, the corrective, the balance and the price. When a man has learned – and not on paper – how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, the illusions that others may share, then he has little left to learn.”

“Living with one’s passions amounts to living with one’s sufferings, which are the counterpoise, the corrective, the balance and the price. When a man has learned – and not on paper – how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, the illusions that others may share, then he has little left to learn.”

— Albert Camus