Quick key thoughts before bed

1) Camus was haunted his entire adult life by his failed first marriage that ended when his wife got heavily involved with drugs. Throughout the rest of his life this affected him deeply, and he continued to send her things anonymously to try to help her with her drug addiction.

2) Francine, his second wife, suffered from major depression and tried killing herself twice by jumping. The second time she broke her pelvis badly. Camus blamed himself for this due to his adultery and particularly of importance, falling in love with his lover, Marie, who was an actress in his plays. She was no longer able to be in his plays after this incident, but strangely enough, after his fatal car accident Francine and Marie were able to talk and become quite close friends with each other.

3) Camus's mother was mostly silent, and according to him had a 400 word vocabularly. When he told her that he turned down a meeting with the French president she agreed with his decision because "those people aren't for us." She was the most important woman in his life, and he could barely communicate with her.