"Seeking what is true ...."

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Albert Camus

"An intense feeling ...."

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

Albert Camus

"Beauty is unbearable ...."

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Albert Camus

"If there is a sin against life ...."

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Albert Camus