People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
ALBERT CAMUSPeople hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
ALBERT CAMUSBut what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
ALBERT CAMUSSometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
ALBERT CAMUSIn order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
ALBERT CAMUSThey knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
ALBERT CAMUSThere are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
ALBERT CAMUSWhen I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
ALBERT CAMUSI rebel; therefore I exist.
ALBERT CAMUSI know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
ALBERT CAMUSSeeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
ALBERT CAMUSThere is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
ALBERT CAMUSThe need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
ALBERT CAMUSThe purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
ALBERT CAMUSFor who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
ALBERT CAMUSAt any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
ALBERT CAMUSShould I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
ALBERT CAMUS