"Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we're all elected by the same fate . . ."
--THE STRANGER [1942] by Albert Camus
"Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice." --THE TRIAL [1925] by Franz Kafka
"But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease." --NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND [1864] by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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