Quote by Albert Camus: “In the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”

Even in the most difficult, darkest periods of life, there is something within you that cannot be extinguished. The warmth and vitality that defines you does not disappear in hard times — you just have to look inward to find it still there, intact.

Camus wrote this in a 1957 letter to his former schoolteacher Louis Germain, after accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was publicly under attack from French intellectuals for his political positions on Algeria, and the letter was a moment of private reflection on the sources of his resilience.

French-Algerian novelist, philosopher, and Nobel laureate who developed the philosophy of absurdism — the idea that humans must confront a universe that offers no inherent meaning. His novel The Stranger and essay The Myth of Sisyphus are among the defining works of twentieth-century thought.