Albert Camus

Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.

Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.