Albert Camus Quotes

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
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Albert Camus
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07 November, 1913
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04 January, 1960
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