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“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”
Albert Camus
“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”
Albert Camus
“To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.”
Albert Camus
“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
Albert Camus
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.”
Albert Camus
“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
Albert Camus
“It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
Albert Camus
“Integrity has no need of rules.”
Albert Camus
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
Albert Camus
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
Albert Camus
“The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.”
Albert Camus
“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
Albert Camus
“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.”
Albert Camus
“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
Albert Camus
“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
Albert Camus
“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
Albert Camus
“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”
Albert Camus
“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
Albert Camus
“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
Albert Camus
“It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.”
Albert Camus
“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”
Albert Camus
“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.”
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
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.”
Albert Camus
“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”
Albert Camus
“Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.”
Albert Camus
“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.”
Albert Camus
“Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.”
Albert Camus
“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.”
Albert Camus
“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”
Albert Camus
