Albert Camus

"When a young man finds himself at the threshold of life, on the brink of any undertaking, he feels grave weariness and profound disgust at the pettiness and vanities that have soiled him even as he tried to deny them; an instictive aversion rises on him. His pride revolts at every day life, which grows even more humiliating. He doubts: ideias in general, social conventions, everything he has received. A grave matter, he also doubts his deepest feelings: Faith, Love. He becomes aware that he his nothing. There he is, alone, and at a loss. But he knows that he desires, therefore he can be something: he must at all cost define his potentialities."