A man is judged more by the balance between achieving knows the needs of his body and the demands of his spirit.
In the night silence resumes its full thickness and the meat of the passing of the stars. And everyone, diving deep into the sky, reflected in this extremity soft and thought that secrecy is all the loneliness of his life.
"Believe me, there are no great pain, big regrets, great memories. You forget everything, even the great loves. And 'This is the sad and exciting life. There is only one way of seeing things and occasionally comes out. 's why it is good in any case have had a great love, a passion unlucky in their lives. It will be at least an excuse for the despair that afflict us for no reason "
In his saliva slowly, as the belly, a rock that climbed up the throat. He was breathing faster and faster, taking advantage of the openings, saliva always, looked and smiled Lucienne without a contraction, and this too was smiling from within. Spilled on the bed and felt within himself the slow climb. He watched the lips of Lucienne and, behind her, the smile of the earth. Looked at them with the same look and have the same desire. "In a minute, in a second" he thought. The ascent is stopped. between the stones and stone, returned to the joy of his heart to the truth of the real estate world.
(Albert Camus - fragments from Death heureuse - juvenile novel published posthumously)