Albert Camus
Quotations
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.
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.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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.
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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.
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
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.
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