Quotes from Albert Camus, A Happy Death

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary.

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

Women naturally prefer their ideas to their sensations.