There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
ALBERT CAMUSThe purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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I love life – that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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