“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
– Albert Camus
“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
– Albert Camus
“A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
– Albert Camus
“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.”
– Albert Camus
“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”
– Albert Camus
“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”
– Albert Camus
“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
– Albert Camus
“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
– Albert Camus
“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
– Albert Camus
“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.”
– Albert Camus
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
– Albert Camus
“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
– Albert Camus
“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.”
– Albert Camus
“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.”
– Albert Camus
“To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.”
– Albert Camus
“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”
– Albert Camus
“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
– Albert Camus
“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.”
– Albert Camus
“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.”
– Albert Camus
“There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.”
– Albert Camus
“Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.”
– Albert Camus
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.”
– Albert Camus
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.”
– Albert Camus
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
– Albert Camus
“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
– Albert Camus
“It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
– Albert Camus
“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.”
– Albert Camus
“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”
– Albert Camus