Albert Camus Quotes
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
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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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We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
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A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
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The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
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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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The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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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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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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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
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My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.