If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
ALBERT CAMUSIt is better to burn than to disappear.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
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We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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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.
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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I’ve never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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We are all born mad, some remain so.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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We are all special cases.
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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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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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Live to the point of tears.
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