Without work life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
-- Albert Camus
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
-- Albert Camus
We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.
-- Albert Camus
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: It should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can be fruitful. An analysis of the idea of revolt could help us discover ideas capable of restoring a relative meaning to existence, although a meaning that would always be in danger.
-- Albert Camus
I've only written a tenth of what I know-- and they're already screaming.
-- Albert Camus
Integrity has no need of rules.
-- Albert Camus
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
-- Albert Camus
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me, an invincible summer.
-- Albert Camus
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest--whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories--comes afterward. These are games; one must first answer.
-- Albert Camus
"Life can be magnificent and overwhelming - That is its whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live."
-- Albert Camus
"Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: It should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can be fruitful. An analysis of the idea of revolt could help us discover ideas capable of restoring a relative meaning to existence, although a meaning that would always be in danger."
-- Albert Camus
"Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics."
-- Albert Camus
La lutte elle-m
-- Albert Camus
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
-- Albert Camus
"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
-- Albert Camus
L'homme enfin n'est pas entiremente coupable - il n'a pas commence l'histoire - ni tout a fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue. In the end, man is not entirely guilty - he did not start history. Nor is he wholly innocent - he continues it.
-- Albert Camus
"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
-- Albert Camus
"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool."
-- Albert Camus
"If the world were clear, art would not exist."
-- Albert Camus
"The fecundity and the importance of a literary form are often measured by the trash it contains."
-- Albert Camus
"Every achievement is a servitude. It drives us to a higher achievement."
-- Albert Camus
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide."
-- Albert Camus
"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."
-- Albert Camus
"A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and best of a life are devoted to earning that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end."
-- Albert Camus
"Integrity has no need for rules."
-- Albert Camus
"Live to the point of tears."
-- Albert Camus
"There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that 2+2=4 is punished by death. And the issue is not what reward or what punishment will be the outcome of that reasoning. The issue is simply whether or not 2+2=4."
-- Albert Camus
But the point is to live."
-- Albert Camus
You will never be happy if you keep searching for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you keep looking for the meaning of life without living it.
-- Albert Camus
The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
-- Albert Camus
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus
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