I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
Albert Camus
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
Albert Camus
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
Albert Camus
How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
Albert Camus
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
Albert Camus
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
Albert Camus
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert Camus
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus
After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
Albert Camus
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Albert Camus
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.
Albert Camus
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
Albert Camus
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
Albert Camus
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
Albert Camus
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
Albert Camus
In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.
Albert Camus
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Albert Camus
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Albert Camus
Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.
Albert Camus