"The first thing to do is to keep silent — to abolish audiences and learn to be your own judge. To keep a balance between an active concern for the body and an awareness of being alive. To give up all feeling that the world owes you a living and devote yourself to achieve two kinds of freedom: freedom from money, and freedom from your own vanity and cowardice. To have rules and to stick to them…If this price is paid, then there is one chance in ten of escaping from the most sordid and miserable of conditions: that of the man who works."
— Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942