Albert Camus Quotes
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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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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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Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?
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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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All healthy men have thought of their own suicide.
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Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.
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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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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.
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My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.
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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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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
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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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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.