Quote: Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. [Albert Camus]
Quote: A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. [Albert Camus]
Quote: Integrity has no need of rules. [Albert Camus]
Quote: We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. [Albert Camus]
Quote: What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. [Albert Camus]
Quote: Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. [Albert Camus]
Quote: There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. [Albert Camus]
Quote: To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred. [Albert Camus]
Quote: Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. [Albert Camus]
Quote: Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. [Albert Camus]
Quote: Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. [Albert Camus]
Quote: Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. [Albert Camus]
Quote: 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, that it is inside ourselves. [Albert Camus]
Quote: In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. [Albert Camus]
Quote: We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others. [Albert Camus]
Quote: Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face. [Albert Camus]
Quote: Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows. [Albert Camus]
Quote: The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action. [Albert Camus]
Quote: Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. [Albert Camus]
Quote: Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. [Albert Camus]
Quote: By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. [Albert Camus]
Quote: When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter. [Albert Camus]
Quote: To be happy we must not be too concerned with others. [Albert Camus]
Quote: But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead. [Albert Camus]
Quote: More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure. [Albert Camus]