Penguin Classics Caligula and Three Other Plays (Penguin Modern Classics). Quotes

“I knew a person could lose all hope, but I didn’t understand what it really meant. Like everyone else, I thought it was a sickness of the soul— but no, it’s the body that suffers. My skin hurts, my chest, my limbs. My mind’s a blank and my heart’s sick. But worst of all, though, the most awful part, is the taste in my mouth. Not blood or death or fever but all of them at once. All it takes is a waggle of the tongue and everything goes black again, and oh how these beings disgust me. How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man.”
― Albert Camus, Penguin Classics Caligula and Three Other Plays (Penguin Modern Classics).

“..,that it's no more immoral to steal directly from citizens than it is to slip indirect taxes into the price of commodities citizens can't do without.”
― Albert Camus, Penguin Classics Caligula and Three Other Plays (Penguin Modern Classics).