John

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

[The Minotaur]”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly