" Mersault said: "Actually, you're an idealist." And he had the sense that everything was enclosed in that moment which shifts from birth to death, that everything was judged and consecrated then.

"That's because, you see," Bernard said with a kind of sadness, "the opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love."

"To think the way you do," he said smiling, "you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope. "

― Albert Camus , A Happy Death