The ones we love - Camus

Another gem from Camus. He is so absurdly brilliant and insightful:

Nous nous trompons toujours deux fois sur ceux que nous aimons: d'abord à leur avantage, puis à leur désavantage

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

-Albert Camus

A Happy Death (written 1938), first published as La mort heureuse (1971), as translated by Richard Howard (1972)