Few people understand that there is a refusal which has nothing in common with renouncement. What is the meaning here of the words future, improvement, position? What is the meaning of the progress of the soul? If I obstinately refuse all of the "laters" of this world, it is because it is also a question of not renouncing my present richness. I do not like to believe that death opens into another life. For me it is a closed door. I do not say that it is a step which must be taken, but that it is a horrible and filthy adventure. Everything that is proposed to me endeavors to take away from man the weight of his own life. - Albert Camus -









