Albert Camus

“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”

“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.”

“Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.”

“Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.”

“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”

“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”

“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”

“It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.”

“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.”

“To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.”

“Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.”

“It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.”

“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.”

“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”

“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”

“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”

“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... inside ourselves.”

“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”

“N'être plus écouté : c'est cela qui est terrible lorsqu'on est vieux.”