Albert Camus

The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.

With rebellion, awareness is born

There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye

The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

We have art in order not to die of life.

A work of art is a confession.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.

No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.