Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
– Albert Camus
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
– Albert Camus
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
– Albert Camus
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
– Albert Camus
Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
– ALBERT CAMUS
“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
– Albert Camus
“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
– Albert Camus
Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘Yes’ without asking a clear question.
– Albert Camus
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
– Albert Camus
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
– Albert Camus
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
– Albert Camus
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
– Albert Camus
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
– Albert Camus
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
– Albert Camus
Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
– Albert Camus
Integrity has no need of rules.
– Albert Camus
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.
– Albert Camus
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
– Albert Camus
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
– Albert Camus
Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.
– Albert Camus