Albert Camus Quotes
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
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The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.
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So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
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A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
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My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.
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If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
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But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.
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Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.