Albert Camus Quotes

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
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.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
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.
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Integrity has no need of rules.
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Albert Camus
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07 November, 1913
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04 January, 1960
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