Albert Camus

Those who write clearly have readers.

— Albert Camus

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

— Albert Camus

With rebellion, awareness is born

— Albert Camus

Integrity needs no rules.

— Albert Camus

In order to exist, man must rebel.

— Albert Camus

Murder is terribly exhausting.

— Albert Camus

“luck is not to be coerced.”

— Albert Camus

Happiness too is inevitable.

— Albert Camus

Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

— Albert Camus

“El mundo no puede ofrecer ya nada al hombre angustiado.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.

— Albert Camus

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

— Albert Camus

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

— Albert Camus

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

— Albert Camus

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

— Albert Camus

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

— Albert Camus

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

— Albert Camus

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

— Albert Camus

Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.

— Albert Camus

“A mi edad es uno sincero forzosamente. Mentir cansa mucho. (Tarrou a Rambert)”

— Albert Camus

“I thought the traveler pretty much deserved what he got and that you should never play games.”

— Albert Camus

But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain.…

— Albert Camus

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

— Albert Camus

We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a…

— Albert Camus

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to…

— Albert Camus

The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed…

— Albert Camus

“It was not a matter, mind you, of the certainty I had of being more intelligent than everyone else. Besides, such certainty…

— Albert Camus

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued…

— Albert Camus

“It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last…

— Albert Camus

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is…

— Albert Camus

In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they…

— Albert Camus

Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the…

— Albert Camus

“On the basis of the evidence, the only conclusion we can draw from Scheler’s remark is that, thanks to the theory of…

— Albert Camus

“Not a breath, not a sound—except at intervals the muffled crackling of stones that the cold was reducing to sand—disturbed the solitude…

— Albert Camus

“It was a rustling sound that woke me up. Because I'd had my eyes closed, the whiteness of the room seemed even…

— Albert Camus

“Ciuma-A.Camus "Puteai sa vezi in toiul noptii, de-a lungul cornisei,convoaie stranii de tramvaie fara calatori, hurducandu-se deasupra marii. Locuitorii au sfarsit prin…

— Albert Camus

“Therefore, (and the difficult thing was not to lose sight of all the reasoning that went into this “therefore”), I had to…

— Albert Camus

“No one can hope that men who have fought in silence for four years and are now fighting all day long in…

— Albert Camus

“Out with it, Tarrou! What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?” “I don’t know. My code of morals,…

— Albert Camus